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

Elert, Emily. 2013. “Living with Leukaemia.” Nature 498(7455):S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allmann, Silke, and Ian T. Baldwin. 2010. “Insects Betray Themselves in Nature to Predators by Rapid Isomerization of Green Leaf Volatiles.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329(5995):1075–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sato, Takaaki, Haruyuki Atomi, and Tadayuki Imanaka. 2007. “Archaeal Type III RuBisCOs Function in a Pathway for AMP Metabolism.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5814):1003–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, Raehee, Toshihiko Shimamoto, Takehiro Hirose, Jin-Han Ree, and Jun-Ichi Ando. 2007. “Ultralow Friction of Carbonate Faults Caused by Thermal Decomposition.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316(5826):878–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wood, Jason, William Brown, and Harry Howe. 2013. IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mahmood, Zaigham, and Richard Hill, eds. 2011. Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Graf, Gunter, and Maria del Mar Cabezas. 2016. “Children’s Rights, Bodily Integrity and Poverty Alleviation.” Pp. 57–73 in Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation, Studies in Global Justice, edited by H. P. Gaisbauer, G. Schweiger, and C. Sedmak. 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 Society and Mental Health.

Blog post

Carpineti, Chris. 2017. “Watch How Marine Scientists In The Sea Of Cortez Tag Sharks.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 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. 1978. The Johnstown Area Flood of 1977: A Case Study for the Future. CED-78-114. 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

Tabone, Brenda. 2013. “Knowledge and Awareness of the Female Athlete Triad among Female Collegiate Athletes at California State University, Long Beach.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, George. 2009. “Weather Doesn’t Dampen Latest Heart-Stopper in the Bronx.” New York Times, October 18, SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elert 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Allmann and Baldwin 2010; Elert 2013).

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

Two authors: (Allmann and Baldwin 2010)
Three authors: (Sato, Atomi, and Imanaka 2007)
4 or more authors: (Han et al. 2007)

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