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

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

Hoogland JL. Prairie dogs disperse when all close kin have disappeared. Science. 2013;339(6124):1205-1207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zoncu R, Sabatini DM. Cell biology. The TASCC of secretion. Science. 2011;332(6032):923-925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryckman JD, Jiao Y, Weiss SM. Three-dimensional patterning and morphological control of porous nanomaterials by gray-scale direct imprinting. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1502.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen D, Wang J, Chen T, Shao L. Defect annihilation at grain boundaries in alpha-Fe. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1450.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris J. The Utopian Globalists. Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Qi E, Shen J, Dou R, eds. Proceedings of 2013 4th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2013). Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Trujillo M, Romero R, Berjano E. Modelos Teóricos basados en Métodos Numéricos de un Aplicador Cool-tip para Ablación RF de Tumores: Relación entre la Temperatura y la Impedancia. In: Folgueras Méndez J, Aznielle Rodríguez TY, Calderón Marín CF, et al., eds. V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba: Sustainable Technologies for the Health of All. IFMBE Proceedings. Springer; 2013:17-20.

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 Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services.

Blog post

Andrew D. Jungle Boogie: Five Dancing Animals Who Know How To Strut Their Stuff. IFLScience. November 17, 2016.

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. Health Information Technology: HHS Is Taking Steps to Develop a National Strategy. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bain Butler D. How L2 Legal Writers Use Strategies for Scholarly Writing: A Mixed Methods Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Gorman J. Figaro, the Toolmaking Cockatoo. New York Times. November 21, 2016:D3.

In-text citations

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

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 Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
Abbreviation	J. Psychosoc. Nurs. Ment. Health Serv.
ISSN (print)	0279-3695
ISSN (online)	1938-2413
Scope	Phychiatric Mental Health