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

Hurst, James K. 2010. “Chemistry. In Pursuit of Water Oxidation Catalysts for Solar Fuel Production.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328(5976):315–16.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salichos, Leonidas, and Antonis Rokas. 2013. “Inferring Ancient Divergences Requires Genes with Strong Phylogenetic Signals.” Nature 497(7449):327–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rudolph, Maxwell L., Vedran Lekić, and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni. 2015. “Viscosity Jump in Earth’s Mid-Mantle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350(6266):1349–52.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reich, Peter B., Mark G. Tjoelker, Jose-Luis Machado, and Jacek Oleksyn. 2006. “Universal Scaling of Respiratory Metabolism, Size and Nitrogen in Plants.” Nature 439(7075):457–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perrin, Vincent. 2013. MRI Techniques. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Freund, Yoav, László Györfi, György Turán, and Thomas Zeugmann, eds. 2008. Algorithmic Learning Theory: 19th International Conference, ALT 2008, Budapest, Hungary, October 13-16, 2008. Proceedings. Vol. 5254. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jensvold, Mary Lee. 2014. “Experimental Conversations: Sign Language Studies with Chimpanzees.” Pp. 63–82 in The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, edited by M. Pina and N. Gontier. 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

Hale, Tom. 2015. “Questions No One Knows The Answers To.” 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. 1977. The Bureau of Indian Affairs Should Do More to Help Educate Indian Students. HRD-77-155. 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

Ward, Daryl. 2014. “Teaching with the End in Mind: A Teacher’s Life History as a Legacy of Educational Leaders.” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Binder, Sarah. 2017. “A Game Plan for Senate Democrats.” New York Times, February 10, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hurst 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hurst 2010; Salichos and Rokas 2013).

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

Two authors: (Salichos and Rokas 2013)
Three authors: (Rudolph, Lekić, and Lithgow-Bertelloni 2015)
4 or more authors: (Reich et al. 2006)

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