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

Woof, J. M. (2005). Immunology. Tipping the scales toward more effective antibodies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5753), 1442–1443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Qian, L., & Winfree, E. (2011). Scaling up digital circuit computation with DNA strand displacement cascades. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6034), 1196–1201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maskus, K. E., Mobarak, A. M., & Stuen, E. T. (2013). Economics. Doctoral students and U.S. immigration policy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6158), 562–563.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Harms, K. E., Wright, S. J., Calderón, O., Hernández, A., & Herre, E. A. (2000). Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest. Nature, 404(6777), 493–495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay, R. (2014). Statistical Thinking for Non-Statisticians in Drug Regulation. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gniech Karasawa, M. M. (Ed.). (2015). Reproductive Diversity of Plants: An Evolutionary Perspective and Genetic Basis (1st ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rocchi, P. (2010). Intelligent Adaptation and the Nature of Software Changes. In Y. Wang, D. Zhang, & W. Kinsner (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (pp. 59–69). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 School Mental Health.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 29). Next Time You Ask The Doctor For Some Antibiotics – Consider Whether You’re Being Immoral. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2013). COMPETES Reauthorization Act: Federal Loan Guarantees for Innovative Technologies in Manufacturing (No. GAO-13-717R). 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

Karas, L. L. (2017). Information systems and technology leaders in merger and acquisition integrations (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, April 7). Reconditioned Harvey Impresses in Winning Return for the Mets. New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Woof 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Qian and Winfree 2011; Woof 2005).

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

Two authors: (Qian and Winfree 2011)
Three or more authors: (Harms et al. 2000)

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