How to format your references using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 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 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

1. Buchanan M. The best is yet to come. Nature. 2007;447:39.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schwartz JH, Tattersall I. ANTHROPOLOGY. Defining the genus Homo. Science. 2015;349:931–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ferain I, Colinge CA, Colinge J-P. Multigate transistors as the future of classical metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. Nature. 2011;479:310–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Da Costa Dias B, Jovanovic K, Gonsalves D, Moodley K, Reusch U, Knackmuss S, et al. Anti-LRP/LR specific antibody IgG1-iS18 and knock-down of LRP/LR by shRNAs rescue cells from Aβ42 induced cytotoxicity. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schneider HJ. Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Agresti A, Meng X-L, editors. Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Buchmann J, Vollmer U. Constructing Forms. In: Vollmer U, editor. Binary Quadratic Forms: An Algorithmic Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 35–56.

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 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Telescope Made From Water Allows Astronomers To Look Into The Extreme Energy Universe [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-telescope-look-extreme-energy-universe/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Review of the Battlefield Exploitation and Target Acquisition System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Mar. Report No.: LCD-80-38.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Filomena TP. Technology portfolio and capacity expansion under uncertainty [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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

1. Greenhouse L. Trying to Decipher the Justices on the Current State of the Death Penalty. New York Times. 2007 Oct 19;A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Abbreviation	Child Adolesc. Psychiatry Ment. Health
ISSN (online)	1753-2000
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health