How to format your references using the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Reproductive and Infant 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

Cairns, J. (2004). The usefulness of parody. Nature, 428(6978), 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jellinek, A. M., & Manga, M. (2002). The influence of a chemical boundary layer on the fixity, spacing and lifetime of mantle plumes. Nature, 418(6899), 760–763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jalili, R., Razal, J. M., & Wallace, G. G. (2013). Wet-spinning of PEDOT:PSS/functionalized-SWNTs composite: a facile route toward production of strong and highly conducting multifunctional fibers. Scientific Reports, 3, 3438.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Likhtik, E., Popa, D., Apergis-Schoute, J., Fidacaro, G. A., & Paré, D. (2008). Amygdala intercalated neurons are required for expression of fear extinction. Nature, 454(7204), 642–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCurley, L. (2016). Professional Rope Access. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bajd, T. (2013). Introduction to Robotics (M. Mihelj & M. Munih, Eds.). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Buchmann, J., & Vollmer, U. (2007). Constructing Forms. In U. Vollmer (Ed.), Binary Quadratic Forms: An Algorithmic Approach (pp. 35–56). 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 Reproductive and Infant Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, May 29). A 10-Foot Great White Shark Jumped Right Into A Fisherman’s Boat In Australia. 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. (1987). Maritime Administration: Efforts To Improve Data on the Federal Ship Financing Program (RCED-87-58). 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

Teater, M. R. (2009). Reentry and reintegration: A grant proposal for formerly incarcerated women [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Herrman, J. (2017, March 14). Up in Arms. New York Times, MM11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cairns, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cairns, 2004; Jellinek & Manga, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jellinek & Manga, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Likhtik et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Reprod. Infant Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0264-6838
ISSN (online)	1469-672X
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Reproductive Medicine General Psychology