How to format your references using the Geriatric Mental Health Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geriatric Mental Health Care. 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

Hatfull, G.F., 2002. Microbiology. A tail of two specifi-cities. Science 295, 2031–2032.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karbaschi, M., Cooke, M.S., 2014. Novel method for the high-throughput processing of slides for the comet assay. Sci. Rep. 4, 7200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaiser, S.M., Malik, H.S., Emerman, M., 2007. Restriction of an extinct retrovirus by the human TRIM5alpha antiviral protein. Science 316, 1756–1758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meier, T., Polzer, P., Diederichs, K., Welte, W., Dimroth, P., 2005. Structure of the rotor ring of F-Type Na+-ATPase from Ilyobacter tartaricus. Science 308, 659–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blumberg, L.M., 2010. Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Rocha, A.F., 2005. The Brain: Fuzzy Arithmetic to Quantum Computing, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Santos, N.C., Melo, C., Pont, F., Guillot, T., Ecuvillon, A., Mayor, M., Udry, S., Queloz, D., Israelian, G., Bouchy, F., Moutou, C., 2008. High-resolution Spectroscopy of Faint Stars with Transiting Planets, in: Santos, Nuno C., Pasquini, L., Correia, A.C.M., Romaniello, M. (Eds.), Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference Held in Aveiro, Portugal, 11–15 September 2006, ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 21–24.

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 Geriatric Mental Health Care.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. Adventurous Beetles Confirm A New Form Of Evolution [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/adventurous-beetles-confirm-a-new-form-of-evolution/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Month In Review, August 1999: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications (No. OPA-99-11). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manners, A.T., 2008. Influence of transformational, autocratic, democratic, and laissez -faire leadership principles on the effectiveness of religious leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kwai, I., 2017. Oy, Mate, Amazon Plans To Hire Aussie Speakers. New York Times A5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hatfull, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Hatfull, 2002; Karbaschi and Cooke, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Karbaschi and Cooke, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Meier et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geriatric Mental Health Care
Abbreviation	Geriatr. Ment. Health Care
ISSN (print)	2212-9693
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychiatry and Mental health