How to format your references using the School Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for School Mental Health. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Malakoff, D. (2000). ELECTION 2000: Uncertainty Wins by a Landslide. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5495), 1277–1279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, T., & Armstrong, K. M. (2003). Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature, 421(6921), 370–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otterbein, L. R., Graceffa, P., & Dominguez, R. (2001). The crystal structure of uncomplexed actin in the ADP state. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5530), 708–711.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lipton, S. A., Nakamura, T., Yao, D., Shi, Z.-Q., Uehara, T., & Gu, Z. (2005). Comment on “S-nitrosylation of parkin regulates ubiquitination and compromises parkin’s protective function.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5730), 1870; author reply 1870.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blevins, R. D. (2015). Formulas for Dynamics, Acoustics and Vibration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Herrmann, K., Nieweg, O. E., & Povoski, S. P. (Eds.). (2016). Radioguided Surgery: Current Applications and Innovative Directions in Clinical Practice (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaushika, N. D., Reddy, K. S., & Kaushik, K. (2016). Conventional Energy and Power System. In K. S. Reddy & K. Kaushik (Eds.), Sustainable Energy and the Environment: A Clean Technology Approach (pp. 43–60). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 School Mental Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 16). Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Erections. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/everything-you-need-know-about-boners/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1999). Surface Transportation: Moving into the 21st Century (No. RCED-99-176). Washington, DC: 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

Baldasaro, R. E. (2013). Person level analysis in latent growth curve models (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Williams, J. (2017, April 7). Eleanor’s Encouragement. New York Times, p. BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malakoff 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Malakoff 2000; Moore and Armstrong 2003).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Armstrong 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lipton et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	School Mental Health
Abbreviation	School Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	1866-2625
ISSN (online)	1866-2633
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education