How to format your references using the Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Atchley, W. R. (2011). Retrospective. Walter M. Fitch (1929-2011). Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6031), 804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fiete, G. A., & de Lozanne, A. (2010). Physics. Seeing quantum fractals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5966), 652–653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & Fincher, K. (2009). Psychology. From oral to moral. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1179–1180.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, L. X., Jäger, W. J., Jennings, G., Gosztola, D. J., Munkholm, A., & Hessler, J. P. (2001). Capturing a photoexcited molecular structure through time-domain x-ray absorption fine structure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5515), 262–264.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rider, M. J. (2015). Design and Analysis of Mechanisms. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fischlin, M., & Katzenbeisser, S. (Eds.). (2013). Number Theory and Cryptography: Papers in Honor of Johannes Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Vol. 8260). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Morris, M., & Rogers, S. M. (2014). Integrating Phenotypic Plasticity Within an Ecological Genomics Framework: Recent Insights from the Genomics, Evolution, Ecology, and Fitness of Plasticity. In C. R. Landry & N. Aubin-Horth (Eds.), Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes (pp. 73–105). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 3). Differences Between Men And Women Are More Than The Sum Of Their Genes. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/differences-between-men-and-women-are-more-sum-their-gene/. 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. (1989). Meeting the Aging Aircraft Challenge: Status and Opportunities (No. T-RCED-90-2). 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

Moulder, J. C. (2010). Comparative analgesic effects of prepulse inhibition and reduced voltage waveforms in defibrillation (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, April 17). Fittingly, a Frank Finale for ‘Girls.’ New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Atchley 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Atchley 2011; Fiete and de Lozanne 2010).

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

Two authors: (Fiete and de Lozanne 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
Abbreviation	Adm. Policy Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	0894-587X
ISSN (online)	1573-3289
Scope	Health Policy Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Phychiatric Mental Health