How to format your references using the School Mental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for School 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

Dzenis, Y. (2008). Materials science. Structural nanocomposites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5862), 419–420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rash, B. G., & Rakic, P. (2014). Neuroscience. Genetic resolutions of brain convolutions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6172), 744–745.

A journal article with 3 authors

Torres, M. A., West, A. J., & Li, G. (2014). Sulphide oxidation and carbonate dissolution as a source of CO2 over geological timescales. Nature, 507(7492), 346–349.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Charlson, R. J., Seinfeld, J. H., Nenes, A., Kulmala, M., Laaksonen, A., & Facchini, M. C. (2001). Atmospheric science. Reshaping the theory of cloud formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5524), 2025–2026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jiang, J., & Zhang, C. (2015). Fundamentals and Applications of Lithium-ion Batteries in Electric Drive Vehicles. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Duff, A., Lepora, N. F., Mura, A., Prescott, T. J., & Verschure, P. F. M. J. (Eds.). (2014). Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: Third International Conference, Living Machines 2014, Milan, Italy, July 30 – August 1, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8608). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, X., Jiang, L., Thiele, L., & Wang, Y. (2016). Secret Key Extraction with Quantization Randomness Using Hadamard Matrix on QuaDRiGa Channel. In S. Qing, E. Okamoto, K. Kim, & D. Liu (Eds.), Information and Communications Security: 17th International Conference, ICICS 2015, Beijing, China, December 9-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 50–61). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 School Mental Health.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, August 6). New Tomato Grows All Night in Fake Light. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-tomato-grows-all-night-fake-light/. 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. (2007). Business Systems Modernization: Strategy for Evolving DOD’s Business Enterprise Architecture Offers a Conceptual Approach, but Execution Details Are Needed (No. GAO-07-451). 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

Fonteix, K. A. (2013). Separate, But Not Equal: A Qualitative Case Study Comparing Traditional And Homebound Instruction Using Technology (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

Kelly, C. (2012, December 23). ‘Big Rich Texas’ Becomes an Unlikely Reality-TV Hit. New York Times, p. A33B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dzenis 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dzenis 2008; Rash and Rakic 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rash and Rakic 2014)
Three or more authors: (Charlson et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	School Mental Health
Abbreviation	School Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	1866-2625
ISSN (online)	1866-2633
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education