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

Gershon D. Vaccine centres unite specialists in the battle against infectious diseases. Nature. 2000;408:753–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewenstein M, Sanpera A. Physics. Probing quantum magnetism with cold atoms. Science. 2008;319:292–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Budday S, Raybaud C, Kuhl E. A mechanical model predicts morphological abnormalities in the developing human brain. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5644.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kroodsma DA, Mayorga J, Hochberg T, et al. Response to Comment on ‘Tracking the global footprint of fisheries’. Science. 2018;361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Landa R. Advertising by Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.

An edited book

Radu R, Chenou J-M, Weber RH, editors. The Evolution of Global Internet Governance: Principles and Policies in the Making. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang T, Guan S-U, Liu F. Entropic Feature Discrimination Ability for Pattern Classification Based on Neural IAL. In: Wang J, Yen GG, Polycarpou MM, eds. Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2012:30–7.

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

Andrew E. Alcohol Guidelines Ignore How People Drink – That’s Why They’re Not Heeded. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/alcohol-guidelines-ignore-how-people-drink-s-why-they-re-not-heeded/ (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. Review of Selected Contracts Awarded by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hutsell JD. School board members’ perception on their roles and responsibilities in developing policy that affects student achievement. 2009.

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

Rappeport A. Measure to Loosen Dodd-Frank Banking Rules Passes the House. New York Times. 2017;B1.

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