How to format your references using the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 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

Lehn J-M. Toward self-organization and complex matter. Science. 2002;295:2400–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nabel CS, Kohli RM. Molecular biology. Demystifying DNA demethylation. Science. 2011;333:1229–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Creed M, Pascoli VJ, Lüscher C. Addiction therapy. Refining deep brain stimulation to emulate optogenetic treatment of synaptic pathology. Science. 2015;347:659–64.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He J, Ritalahti KM, Yang K-L, et al. Detoxification of vinyl chloride to ethene coupled to growth of an anaerobic bacterium. Nature. 2003;424:62–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles R. 200 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell 2012.

An edited book

Sivakumar MVK, Motha RP, Das HP, editors. Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture: Impacts and Mitigation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Kurtis M, Logishetty K, Martinez-Martin P. An in-Depth Look at the Non Motor Symptom Scale. In: Martinez-Martin P, Odin P, Antonini A, eds. Handbook of Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease. Heidelberg: Springer Healthcare UK 2011:37–43.

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 Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.

Blog post

Fang J. Ants Might Be Cheap, Effective Alternatives To Chemical Pesticides. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-might-be-cheap-effective-alternatives-chemical-pesticides/ (accessed 30 October 2018)

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. [Query Concerning Legality of Transfer of Japan-United States Friendship Commission Funds]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tasoff AJ. Quantifying the Genetic Capacity of California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) to Adapt to Ocean Acidification. 2017.

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

Hartocollis A. Mental Issues Put 34,500 on New York No-Guns List. New York Times. 2014;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 title	Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Plann. Reprod. Health Care
ISSN (print)	1471-1893
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine