How to format your references using the International Journal of Stress Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Stress Management. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Allen, G. E. (2001). Essays on science and society. Is a new eugenics afoot? Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5540), 59–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wallenfang, M. R., & Seydoux, G. (2000). Polarization of the anterior-posterior axis of C. elegans is a microtubule-directed process. Nature, 408(6808), 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Majumdar, S., Singh, A., & Rio, D. C. (2013). The human THAP9 gene encodes an active P-element DNA transposase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6118), 446–448.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

de Garidel-Thoron, T., Rosenthal, Y., Bassinot, F., & Beaufort, L. (2005). Stable sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific warm pool over the past 1.75 million years. Nature, 433(7023), 294–298.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belmont, D. P. (2011). Managing Hedge Fund Risk and Financing. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Hagen, S. J. (Ed.). (2015). The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ureña-Guerrero, M. E., Feria-Velasco, A. I., Gudiño-Cabrera, G., Espuny, A. C., & Beas-Zárate, C. (2013). Modifications in the Seizures Susceptibility by Excitotoxic Neuronal Damage and Its Possible Relationship with the Pharmacoresistance. In L. Rocha & E. A. Cavalheiro (Eds.), Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy: From Genes and Molecules to Promising Therapies (pp. 59–76). Springer.

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 International Journal of Stress Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 6). Studying Down Syndrome Might Help Us Understand Alzheimer’s Disease Better. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1986). The Condition of Information on Education (129118). 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

Sanabria, A. (2012). Root Metaphor [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.

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

Wells, L. (2005, October 16). My Life in Pictures. New York Times, 656.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Allen, 2001; Wallenfang & Seydoux, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Wallenfang & Seydoux, 2000)
Three authors: (Majumdar et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (de Garidel-Thoron et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Stress Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Stress Manag.
ISSN (print)	1072-5245
ISSN (online)	1573-3424
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting General Medicine General Psychology Applied Psychology Education