How to format your references using the Australian Family Physician citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Family Physician. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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
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Clark JS. Individuals and the variation needed for high species diversity in forest trees. Science. 2010 Feb 26;327(5969):1129–32.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Jacob Y, Martienssen R. Molecular biology. All packed up and ready to go. Science. 2012 Jun 15;336(6087):1391–2.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Turk MJ, Abel T, O’Shea B. The formation of Population III binaries from cosmological initial conditions. Science. 2009 Jul 31;325(5940):601–5.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Kuroda DG, Singh CP, Peng Z, Kleiman VD. Mapping excited-state dynamics by coherent control of a dendrimer’s photoemission efficiency. Science. 2009 Oct 9;326(5950):263–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Gilhus NE, Barnes MP, Brainin M. European Handbook of Neurological Management. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.
An edited book
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Rockstuhl C, Scharf T, editors. Amorphous Nanophotonics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. XVIII, 372 p. 264 illus., 98 illus. in color. (Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics).
A chapter in an edited book
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Aranda RMM, López-Sanz J. Green Solvents for Pharmaceutical Industry. In: Mohammad A, editor. Green Solvents I: Properties and Applications in Chemistry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 147–73.

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 Australian Family Physician.

Blog post
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O`Callaghan J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. This Machine Removes CO2 From The Air And Turns It Into Fertilizer. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/this-machine-removes-co2-from-the-air-and-turns-it-into-fertilizer/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Certain Weaknesses in the Administration of the Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Project in Cleveland, Ohio. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Jan. Report No.: 089487.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Stadalis MD. Development of a Conceptual Model and Instrument for Sustaining Successful School Reculturing and Reform Efforts [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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
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Schmidt MS, Apuzzo M. Mueller’s Moves Point to Inquiry Aimed at Trump. New York Times. 2017 Jun 15;A1.

In-text citations

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

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 titleAustralian Family Physician
ISSN (print)0300-8495
Scope

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