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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Society and 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

Bohannon, John. 2007. “The Gonzonaut Goes to Mars.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318(5857):1719.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bers, Donald M., and Samantha P. Harris. 2011. “Translational Medicine: To the Rescue of the Failing Heart.” Nature 473(7345):36–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyd, Oliver S., Craig H. Jones, and Anne F. Sheehan. 2004. “Foundering Lithosphere Imaged beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305(5684):660–62.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kiers, E. Toby, Marie Duhamel, Yugandhar Beesetty, Jerry A. Mensah, Oscar Franken, Erik Verbruggen, Carl R. Fellbaum, George A. Kowalchuk, Miranda M. Hart, Alberto Bago, Todd M. Palmer, Stuart A. West, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Jan Jansa, and Heike Bücking. 2011. “Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333(6044):880–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toptygin, Igor N. 2015. Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Rao, P. Srinivasa, and C. Ganesh Kumar, eds. 2013. Characterization of Improved Sweet Sorghum Cultivars. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Khovratovich, Dmitry. 2008. “Two Attacks on RadioGatún.” Pp. 53–66 in Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2008: 9th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Kharagpur, India, December 14-17, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by D. R. Chowdhury, V. Rijmen, and A. Das. 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 Society and Mental Health.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Scientists May Have Detected Echoes From A Pre-Collision Earth.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 (https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-may-have-detected-echoes-pre-collision-earth/).

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. 1989. Customs Automation: Cargo Examinations Targeted by Automated Cargo Selectivity System. IMTEC-89-59. 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

Murray, Earl. 2012. “California Community College Athletic Directors Lived Experience and Perceptions about Financing Issues with Athletic Programs.” 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “Judge Selection To Be Reviewed By U.S. Justices.” New York Times, February 21, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bers and Harris 2011; Bohannon 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bers and Harris 2011)
Three authors: (Boyd, Jones, and Sheehan 2004)
4 or more authors: (Kiers et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Society and Mental Health
Abbreviation	Soc. Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	2156-8693
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health