How to format your references using the Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent 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

Minelli A. Developmental biology. Bits and pieces. Science. 2004 Dec 3;306(5702):1693–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouibes A, Zaoui A. High-pressure polymorphs of ZnCO₃: evolutionary crystal structure prediction. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 4;4:5172.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abou Chakra M, Hilbe C, Traulsen A. Plastic behaviors in hosts promote the emergence of retaliatory parasites. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 4;4:4251.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hurlstone AFL, Haramis APG, Wienholds E, Begthel H, Korving J, Van Eeden F, et al. The Wnt/beta-catenin pathway regulates cardiac valve formation. Nature. 2003 Oct 9;425(6958):633–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf EL, Medikonda M. Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Berry MW, Gallivan KA, Gallopoulos E, Grama A, Philippe B, Saad Y, et al., editors. High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications. London: Springer; 2012. XIV, 350 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Mucherino A, Papajorgji PJ, Pardalos PM. Artificial Neural Networks. In: Papajorgji PJ, Pardalos PM, editors. Data Mining in Agriculture. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 107–22. (Springer Optimization and Its Applications).

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 Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Blog post

Evans K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Watch What Happens When You Shoot An “Unbreakable” Prince Rupert’s Drop With A Bullet. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/watch-what-happens-when-you-shoot-an-unbreakable-prince-ruperts-drop-with-a-bullet/

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. Public Transportation: Federal Project Approval Process Remains a Barrier to Greater Private Sector Role and DOT Could Enhance Efforts to Assist Project Sponsors. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Oct. Report No.: GAO-10-19.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Amanoua KP. Langue et identité dans les milieux populaires québécois et antillais [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2014.

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

Kelly C. Choosing to Live Abroad in Retirement. New York Times. 2014 Nov 15;B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
ISSN (online)	0973-1342
Scope