How to format your references using the Journal of Family Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Family Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Devlin, K. (2002). Portraits of science. Kurt Gödel--separating truth from proof in mathematics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5600), 1899–1900.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fried, S. D., & Boxer, S. G. (2015). BIOPHYSICS. Response to Comments on “Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6251), 936.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shcherbina, A. Y., Talley, L. D., & Rudnick, D. L. (2003). Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1952–1955.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, H.-C., Lin, H.-C., Chen, H.-H., Mai, F.-D., Liu, Y.-C., Lin, C.-M., Chang, C.-C., Tsai, H.-Y., & Yang, C.-P. (2014). Innovative strategy with potential to increase hemodialysis efficiency and safety. Scientific Reports, 4, 4425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris, M. (2015). Inside the Crystal Ball. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Thomsen, M. R., Tamke, M., Gengnagel, C., Faircloth, B., & Scheurer, F. (Eds.). (2015). Modelling Behaviour: Design Modelling Symposium 2015. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Johns-Krull, C. M. (2009). Hot Inner Winds from T Tauri Stars. In K. Tsinganos, T. Ray, & M. Stute (Eds.), Protostellar Jets in Context (pp. 33–41). 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 Journal of Family Psychology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017, January 13). Megalodon Shark May Have Died Out Because It Refused To Pick On Someone Its Own Size. 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. (2001). Alternative Market Mechanisms for the Student Loan Program (GAO-02-84SP). 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

Allison, C. L. (2015). An Investigation into the Experiences of Traditional Higher Education Instructors Transitioning into Effective Online Instructors [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Brantley, B. (2017, April 28). Who’s That Knocking on the Door? New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Devlin, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Devlin, 2002; Fried & Boxer, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fried & Boxer, 2015)
Three authors: (Shcherbina et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Family Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0893-3200
ISSN (online)	1939-1293
Scope	General Psychology

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