How to format your references using the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 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

Morken, J. P. (2014). Organic chemistry: Catalysis marches on. Nature, 508(7496), 324–325.

A journal article with 2 authors

Van Roy, P., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2011). A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid. Nature, 473(7348), 510–513.

A journal article with 3 authors

Booker, J. R., Favetto, A., & Pomposiello, M. C. (2004). Low electrical resistivity associated with plunging of the Nazca flat slab beneath Argentina. Nature, 429(6990), 399–403.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Song, N.-N., Ke, Y.-J., Yang, H.-T., Zhang, H., Zhang, X.-Q., Shen, B.-G., & Cheng, Z.-H. (2013). Integrating giant microwave absorption with magnetic refrigeration in one multifunctional intermetallic compound of LaFe(11.6)Si(1.4)C(0.2)H(1.7). Scientific reports, 3, 2291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bill Huitt, W. M. (2016). Bioprocessing Piping and Equipment Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dunaif, A., Chang, R. J., Franks, S., & Legro, R. S. (Eds.). (2008). Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Current Controversies, From The Ovary To The Pancreas. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Farrell, H. M., Brown, E. M., & Malin, E. L. (2013). Higher Order Structures of the Caseins: A Paradox? In P. L. H. McSweeney & P. F. Fox (Eds.), Advanced Dairy Chemistry: Volume 1A: Proteins: Basic Aspects, 4th Edition (pp. 161–184). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, December 5). Dust Grains That Form Planets Are 10 Times Smaller Than Thought. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dust-grains-that-form-planets-are-10-times-smaller-than-thought/. 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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving Yet Essential Actions Remain to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services (No. T-AIMD-99-268). 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

Bentley, K. J. (2016). Modern Public Market to Revitalize a Small Community (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

Hodgman, J. (2016, October 14). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, p. MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morken 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Morken 2014; Van Roy and Briggs 2011).

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

Two authors: (Van Roy and Briggs 2011)
Three or more authors: (Song et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ment. Health Addict.
ISSN (print)	1557-1874
ISSN (online)	1557-1882
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health