How to format your references using the Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. 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

Ittekkot, V. (2003). Geochemistry. A new story from the Ol’ Man River. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5629), 56–58.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oliveira, J. G., & Barabási, A.-L. (2005). Human dynamics: Darwin and Einstein correspondence patterns. Nature, 437(7063), 1251.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stollewerk, A., Schoppmeier, M., & Damen, W. G. M. (2003). Involvement of Notch and Delta genes in spider segmentation. Nature, 423(6942), 863–865.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Russell, C. T., Zhang, T. L., Delva, M., Magnes, W., Strangeway, R. J., & Wei, H. Y. (2007). Lightning on Venus inferred from whistler-mode waves in the ionosphere. Nature, 450(7170), 661–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, H. K., & Martin, G. S. (2011). Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ahmed, W. (2014). Chemical Vapour Deposition of Diamond for Dental Tools and Burs (H. Sein, M. J. Jackson, C. Rego, D. A. Phoenix, A. Elhissi, & S. J. Crean, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharp, D. N. (2014). Economic Violence in the Practice of African Truth Commissions and Beyond. In D. N. Sharp (Ed.), Justice and Economic Violence in Transition (pp. 79–107). 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 Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, May 13). Breaking Waves Disturb Earth’s Magnetic Field. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/swirly-waves-perturb-planets-magnetic-field/

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. (2006). Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges Associated with the Transformation of the National Airspace System (GAO-07-25). 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

Stanford, C. J. (2008). Highly sensitive fiber Bragg grating biosensors [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Rosenberg, E., & Southall, A. (2016, October 19). De Blasio Calls Police Shooting ‘Unacceptable.’ New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ittekkot, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ittekkot, 2003; Oliveira & Barabási, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Oliveira & Barabási, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Russell et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
Abbreviation	Crisis
ISSN (print)	0227-5910
ISSN (online)	2151-2396
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health