How to format your references using the Mental Health and Physical Activity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mental Health and Physical Activity. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

von Hippel, P. H. (2004). Biochemistry. Completing the view of transcriptional regulation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5682), 350–352.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anbar, A. D., & Knoll, A. H. (2002). Proterozoic ocean chemistry and evolution: a bioinorganic bridge? Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5584), 1137–1142.

A journal article with 3 authors

Szlufarska, I., Nakano, A., & Vashishta, P. (2005). A crossover in the mechanical response of nanocrystalline ceramics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5736), 911–914.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Borovikova, L. V., Ivanova, S., Zhang, M., Yang, H., Botchkina, G. I., Watkins, L. R., Wang, H., Abumrad, N., Eaton, J. W., & Tracey, K. J. (2000). Vagus nerve stimulation attenuates the systemic inflammatory response to endotoxin. Nature, 405(6785), 458–462.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Wen, S., & Huang, P. (2011). Principles of Tribology. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Pavelka, M. (2005). Functional Ultrastructure: An Atlas of Tissue Biology and Pathology (J. Roth, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bignami, G. F., & Sommariva, A. (2013). Interstellar Exploration Technologies. In A. Sommariva (Ed.), A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing (pp. 41–60). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Mental Health and Physical Activity.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, January 6). Parents Giving Children Alcohol Is Associated With More Drinking, But Possibly Fewer Binges. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/parents-giving-children-alcohol-is-associated-with-more-drinking-but-possibly-fewer-binges/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1997). Status of Information Needed to Complete Financial Audit of the District of Columbia’s Dedicated Highway Fund for Fiscal Year 1996 (AIMD-97-73R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Vincent, P. S. (2012). The State of Chaos [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kelly, M. (1992, October 16). The Surrounding Scene; It Seemed Like Donahue. But With Bush, Clinton and Perot, It Sure Wasn’t. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (von Hippel, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Anbar & Knoll, 2002; von Hippel, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Anbar & Knoll, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Borovikova et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mental Health and Physical Activity
Abbreviation	Ment. Health Phys. Act.
ISSN (print)	1755-2966
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology