How to format your references using the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing citation style

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

Coleman, P. (2007) Physics. Watching electrons break up. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316, 1290–1291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Goff, L., & Lecuit, T. (2009) Developmental biology. Phase transition in a cell. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324, 1654–1655.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aitken, C. M., Jones, D. M., & Larter, S. R. (2004) Anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation in deep subsurface oil reservoirs. Nature, 431, 291–294.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stanhope, M. J., Lupas, A., Italia, M. J., et al. (2001) Phylogenetic analyses do not support horizontal gene transfers from bacteria to vertebrates. Nature, 411, 940–944.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shahidi, A. (2014) Balanced Asset Allocation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pisanski, T. (2013) Configurations from a Graphical Viewpoint. (ed Servatius, B.). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoffmann, P., & Herczeg, M. (2006) Hypervideo vs. Storytelling Integrating Narrative Intelligence into Hypervideo. In: Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment: Third International Conference, TIDSE 2006, Darmstadt, Germany, December 4-6, 2006. Proceedings (eds Göbel, S., Malkewitz, R., & Iurgel, I.), pp. 37–48. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016, October 5) Aerial Survey Shows Huge Pacific “Garbage Patch” Is Even Bigger Than Thought. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/aerial-survey-shows-huge-pacific-garbage-patch-is-even-bigger-than-thought/

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 (1998) Aviation Safety: FAA’s Use of Emergency Orders to Revoke or Suspend Operating Certificates (No. T-RCED-98-253). 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

Manuel, D. G. (2019) Integrate or Innovate: Controlling Schedule Risk in Major Defense Acquisition Programs (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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, August 14) Municipal Bond Rule Mired in Legislative Limbo. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coleman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Coleman, 2007; Le Goff & Lecuit, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Le Goff & Lecuit, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Stanhope et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Abbreviation	J. Psychiatr. Ment. Health Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1351-0126
ISSN (online)	1365-2850
Scope	Phychiatric Mental Health