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

Abbott, A. (2001). Concern raised for missing biologist. Nature, 414(6863), 475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Remy, J.-J., & Hobert, O. (2005). An interneuronal chemoreceptor required for olfactory imprinting in C. elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5735), 787–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fradkin, E., Kivelson, S. A., & Oganesyan, V. (2007). Physics. Electron nematic phase in a transition metal oxide. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5809), 196–197.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Morel, C. M., Carvalheiro, J. R., Romero, C. N. P., Costa, E. A., & Buss, P. M. (2007). The road to recovery. Nature, 449(7159), 180–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guinot, V. (2010). Wave Propagation in Fluids. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shome, P., & Sharma, P. (Eds.). (2015). Emerging Economies: Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation. Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Olschewski, H., & Olschewski, A. (2014). Pulmonary Hypertension. In I. Wakabayashi & K. Groschner (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Concepts in Cardiovascular Health: Volume III: Cardiovascular Events (pp. 97–114). Springer International Publishing.

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. (2015, November 10). Time To Take A Sick Day: Working When Ill Is Bad For You – And Your Company. 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. (1992). Aviation Safety: Slow Progress, Uncertain Future Threaten FAA Program To Measure Safety (T-IMTEC-92-12). 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

Schenkelberg, V. (2010). Cultural competence training: A grant proposal [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

Wagner, J. (2017, May 13). Familia’s Surgery Has Mets Scrambling in the Bullpen. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Remy & Hobert, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Remy & Hobert, 2005)
Three authors: (Fradkin et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Morel et al., 2007)

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