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

Ristein, J. (2006). Physics. Surface transfer doping of semiconductors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5790), 1057–1058.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freedman, D. J., & Assad, J. A. (2006). Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex. Nature, 443(7107), 85–88.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Cuaresma, J. C., & Sanderson, W. (2008). Economics. The demography of educational attainment and economic growth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1047–1048.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Arvanitidis, J., Papagelis, K., Margadonna, S., Prassides, K., & Fitch, A. N. (2003). Temperature-induced valence transition and associated lattice collapse in samarium fulleride. Nature, 425(6958), 599–602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster, M. C. (2005). LC/MS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marburg, S., & Nolte, B. (Eds.). (2008). Computational Acoustics of Noise Propagation in Fluids - Finite and Boundary Element Methods. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zoeller, R. T. (2011). Endocrine Disruption of the Thyroid and its Consequences in Development. In J.-P. Bourguignon, B. Jégou, B. Kerdelhué, J. Toppari, & Y. Christen (Eds.), Multi-System Endocrine Disruption (pp. 51–71). 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, E. (2014, August 22). Physicists Create World’s Coolest Molecules. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-create-world’s-coolest-molecules/

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. (1997). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership Today Needed To Prevent Future Disruption of Government Services (T-AIMD-97-51). 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

Breckheimer, I. (2012). Mapping habitat quality in conservation’s neglected geography [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, May 16). The Illustrated Stories of Teenagers, Told With Humor and a Light Heart. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ristein, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Freedman & Assad, 2006; Ristein, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Freedman & Assad, 2006)
Three authors: (Lutz et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Arvanitidis et al., 2003)

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