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

Crow, J. M. (2012). Obesity: insensitive issue. Nature, 486(7403), S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, Y., & Dorn, G. W., 2nd. (2013). PINK1-phosphorylated mitofusin 2 is a Parkin receptor for culling damaged mitochondria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6131), 471–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Steck, D. A., Oskay, W. H., & Raizen, M. G. (2001). Observation of chaos-assisted tunneling between islands of stability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5528), 274–278.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Regal, C. A., Ticknor, C., Bohn, J. L., & Jin, D. S. (2003). Creation of ultracold molecules from a Fermi gas of atoms. Nature, 424(6944), 47–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Numai, T. (2010). Laser Diodes and their Applications to Communications and Information Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vymazal, J. (2008). Wastewater Treatment in Constructed Wetlands with Horizontal Sub-Surface Flow (L. Kröpfelová, Ed.; Vol. 14). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Reiter, G. (2011). Spreading of Liquids on Substrates. In L. F. M. da Silva, A. Öchsner, & R. D. Adams (Eds.), Handbook of Adhesion Technology (pp. 93–103). 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, June 11). The Real Science On Wind Farms, Noise, Infrasound And Health. 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. (1994). Space Station: Impact of the Expanded Russian Role on Funding and Research (NSIAD-94-220). 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

McCorvey, Z. J. (2013). Addressing disruptive behaviors in an After School Program classroom: The effects of the Daily Behavior Report Card [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Miller, S. (2017, May 25). Tennis Stars on Steroids? It’s Make Believe, Right? New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crow, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chen & Dorn, 2013; Crow, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Dorn, 2013)
Three authors: (Steck et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Regal et al., 2003)

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