How to format your references using the Advances in School Mental Health Promotion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in School Mental Health Promotion. 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	Download the output style file
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

Poste, G. (2011). Bring on the biomarkers. Nature, 469(7329), 156–157.

A journal article with 2 authors

Polyak, K., & Marusyk, A. (2014). Cancer: Clonal cooperation. Nature, 508(7494), 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, Y., Shi, Y., & Ding, S. (2008). A chemical approach to stem-cell biology and regenerative medicine. Nature, 453(7193), 338–344.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, S., Ma, J., Peng, J., & Xu, J. (2013). Protein structure alignment beyond spatial proximity. Scientific Reports, 3, 1448.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, P. I., & Hardin, J. W. (2012). Common Errors in Statistics (And How to Avoid Them). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bonakdarpour, B., & Petit, F. (Eds.). (2016). Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 18th International Symposium, SSS 2016, Lyon, France, November 7-10, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 10083). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, Y., Benois-Pineau, J., & Nicolas, H. (2013). A Multi-Resolution Particle Filter Tracking with a Dual Consistency Check for Model Update in a Multi-Camera Environment. In N. Adami, A. Cavallaro, R. Leonardi, & P. Migliorati (Eds.), Analysis, Retrieval and Delivery of Multimedia Content (pp. 71–90). 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 Advances in School Mental Health Promotion.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 2). Shift From Electronics To Spintronics Opens Up Possibilities Of Faster Data. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/shift-electronics-spintronics-opens-possibilities-faster-data/

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. (1993). Educational Testing: The Canadian Experience With Standards, Examinations, and Assessments (PEMD-93-11). 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

Neilson, D. H. (2009). Structured interactions and collective outcomes essays on production and finance [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Otis, J. (2017, October 18). Playing by Rules After Breaking Them for Years. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Poste, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Polyak & Marusyk, 2014; Poste, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Polyak & Marusyk, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in School Mental Health Promotion
Abbreviation	Adv. Sch. Ment. Health Promot.
ISSN (print)	1754-730X
ISSN (online)	2049-8535
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Pediatrics Developmental and Educational Psychology