Website to connect people with mental health, substance-use supports

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 63, No. 8, October 2021, Page 328 News

British Columbians can now navigate and connect with mental health and substance-use information and supports via the Wellbeing website (https://wellbeing.gov.bc.ca). The website features a guided search tool that helps users find a curated, personalized list of services based on their answers to simple questions about who they are and what they need. It is particularly beneficial for people who are seeking help for the first time and need extra guidance to learn about the information and supports that are available to them. It includes information about mental health and substance use to help support children or youth, postsecondary students, adults, parents or caregivers, seniors, Indigenous persons, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, people who use drugs, and service providers. Content on the website will be expanded with ongoing input from community partners and continuous peer review by people with lived and living experience of mental health and substance-use challenges.

. Website to connect people with mental health, substance-use supports. BCMJ, Vol. 63, No. 8, October, 2021, Page(s) 328 - News.


Above is the information needed to cite this article in your paper or presentation. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommends the following citation style, which is the now nearly universally accepted citation style for scientific papers:
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.

About the ICMJE and citation styles

The ICMJE is small group of editors of general medical journals who first met informally in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1978 to establish guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals. The group became known as the Vancouver Group. Its requirements for manuscripts, including formats for bibliographic references developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), were first published in 1979. The Vancouver Group expanded and evolved into the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which meets annually. The ICMJE created the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals to help authors and editors create and distribute accurate, clear, easily accessible reports of biomedical studies.

An alternate version of ICMJE style is to additionally list the month an issue number, but since most journals use continuous pagination, the shorter form provides sufficient information to locate the reference. The NLM now lists all authors.

BCMJ standard citation style is a slight modification of the ICMJE/NLM style, as follows:

  • Only the first three authors are listed, followed by "et al."
  • There is no period after the journal name.
  • Page numbers are not abbreviated.


For more information on the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, visit www.icmje.org

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