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

Spudis PD. Planetary science. What is the Moon made of? Science 2001;293:1779–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norenzayan A, Shariff AF. The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science 2008;322:58–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rich T, Allen RL, Wyllie AH. Defying death after DNA damage. Nature 2000;407:777–83.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ford MGJ, Mills IG, Peter BJ, et al. Curvature of clathrin-coated pits driven by epsin. Nature 2002;419:361–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Natsuno T. i-Mode Strategy. Chichester, UK: : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2005.

An edited book

Williams JD, Pasch KE, Collins CA, editors. Advances in Communication Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity. New York, NY: : Springer 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Austin J, Bentkover J, Chait L. Tools for Transformational Strategic Planning. In: Austin J, Bentkover J, Chait L, eds. Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation. Cham: : Springer International Publishing 2016. 47–70.

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

Davis J. Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Part Of A Rat’s Brain. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Telecommunications: FTS 2000 Cost Comparison. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caraballo-Cole T. Mindfulness-based mental health services for single mothers: A grant proposal. 2012.

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

Saslow L. Babylon Supervisor Wants Town to Go Green. New York Times. 2006;:14LI2.

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

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