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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Family Violence. 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

Ingham, P. W. (2001). Hedgehog signaling: a tale of two lipids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5548), 1879–1881.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krauss, L. M., & Chaboyer, B. (2003). Age estimates of globular clusters in the Milky Way: constraints on cosmology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5603), 65–69.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ravishankara, A. R., Daniel, J. S., & Portmann, R. W. (2009). Nitrous oxide (N2O): the dominant ozone-depleting substance emitted in the 21st century. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5949), 123–125.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hessler, A. M., Lowe, D. R., Jones, R. L., & Bird, D. K. (2004). A lower limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 3.2 billion years ago. Nature, 428(6984), 736–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guochao, Q., Shuyu, T., Min, Z., & Chun, J. (2014). The Environment and Landscape in Motorway Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Müller, A. H. E., & Schmidt, H.-W. (Eds.). (2010). Complex Macromolecular Systems II (Vol. 228). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rydin, H., Gunnarsson, U., & Sundberg, S. (2006). The Role of Sphagnum in Peatland Development and Persistence. In R. K. Wieder & D. H. Vitt (Eds.), Boreal Peatland Ecosystems (pp. 47–65). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Violence.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, June 2). Glass Might Have A New Phase Of Matter Thanks To Infinite Dimensions Calculation. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/glass-might-have-a-new-phase-of-matter-thanks-to-infinite-dimensions-calculation/. 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. (2010). 2010 Census: Data Collection Is Under Way, but Reliability of Key Information Technology Systems Remains a Risk (No. GAO-10-567T). Washington, DC: 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

Davidson, J. M. (2010). Transitional age youth—a program expansion to enhance existing services in Sonoma County: A grant-writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, June 16). Walmart to Acquire Bonobos for $310 Million. New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ingham 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ingham 2001; Krauss and Chaboyer 2003).

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

Two authors: (Krauss and Chaboyer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hessler et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Family Violence
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Violence
ISSN (print)	0885-7482
ISSN (online)	1573-2851
Scope	Clinical Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law Sociology and Political Science