How to format your references using the Society and Mental Health citation style

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

Szalavitz, Maia. 2015. “Genetics: No More Addictive Personality.” Nature 522(7557):S48-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Janssen, Michel, and Jürgen Renn. 2015. “History: Einstein Was No Lone Genius.” Nature 527(7578):298–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung, Chen-Lung, Victor Gurarie, and Cheng Chin. 2013. “From Cosmology to Cold Atoms: Observation of Sakharov Oscillations in a Quenched Atomic Superfluid.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341(6151):1213–15.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, Hsiao-Chien, Hsiu-Chen Lin, Hsi-Hsien Chen, Fu-Der Mai, Yu-Chuan Liu, Chun-Mao Lin, Chun-Chao Chang, Hui-Yen Tsai, and Chih-Ping Yang. 2014. “Innovative Strategy with Potential to Increase Hemodialysis Efficiency and Safety.” Scientific Reports 4:4425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Etten, Wim C. 2006. Introduction to Random Signals and Noise. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rehm, Georg, and Hans Uszkoreit, eds. 2012. The Serbian Language in the Digital Age. White Paper Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Thornalley, Paul J., and Naila Rabbani. 2011. “Thiamine in Diabetic Renal Disease: Dietary Insufficiency, Renal Washout, Antistress Gene Response, Therapeutic Supplements, Risk Predictor, and Link to Genetic Susceptibility.” Pp. 93–104 in Studies on Renal Disorders, edited by T. Miyata, K.-U. Eckardt, and M. Nangaku. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Society and Mental Health.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2015. “Mysterious Ancient Geoglyphs Discovered In Kazakhstan Leave Archeologists Perplexed.” IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mysterious-ancient-geoglyphs-discovered-kazakhstan-leave-archaeologists-perplexed/.

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. 2008. Chemical Assessments: EPA’s New Assessment Process Will Further Limit the Productivity and Credibility of Its Integrated Risk Information System. GAO-08-810T. 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

Hendricks-Harris, Mary Therese. 2012. “Quality Induction: The Effects of Comprehensive Induction on New Teacher Retention and Job Satisfaction.” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Grynbaum, Michael M. 2017. “Confused by Scaramucci’s Plans for a Media Venture? So Is He.” New York Times, October 3, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szalavitz 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Janssen and Renn 2015; Szalavitz 2015).

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

Two authors: (Janssen and Renn 2015)
Three authors: (Hung, Gurarie, and Chin 2013)
4 or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Society and Mental Health
Abbreviation	Soc. Ment. Health
ISSN (print)	2156-8693
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health