How to format your references using the Reflective Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reflective Practice. 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

Bartlett, S. D. (2014). Quantum computing: powered by magic. Nature, 510(7505), 345–347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chin, L., & Gray, J. W. (2008). Translating insights from the cancer genome into clinical practice. Nature, 452(7187), 553–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baulch, H. M., Stanley, E. H., & Bernhardt, E. S. (2011). Can algal uptake stop NO3(-) pollution? Nature, 477(7366), E3; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Carreiras, M., Seghier, M. L., Baquero, S., Estévez, A., Lozano, A., Devlin, J. T., & Price, C. J. (2009). An anatomical signature for literacy. Nature, 461(7266), 983–986.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woods, L. C. (2005). Theory of Tokamak Transport. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Panigrahi, B. K., Suganthan, P. N., Das, S., & Satapathy, S. C. (Eds.). (2011). Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing: Second International Conference, SEMCCO 2011, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, December 19-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 7076). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wafford, K. A. (2014). The Pharmacology of Extrasynaptic GABAA Receptors. In A. C. Errington, G. Di Giovanni, & V. Crunelli (Eds.), Extrasynaptic GABAA Receptors (pp. 51–74). 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 Reflective Practice.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, December 24). Turkey’s Oldest Stone Tool Pinpoints Human Migration to Europe. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/turkeys-oldest-stone-tool-pinpoints-human-migration-europe/

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. (1982). A Summary of the Legislative Provisions of the Block Grants Created by the 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (IPE-83-2). 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

Frisbee, K. L. (2015). The impact of mobile health (mhealth) technology on family caregiver’s burden levels and an assessment of variations in mhealth tool use [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Itzkoff, D., Bertsche, R., Spitznagel, E., Hodgman, J., Henig, S., Reeves, H., Hanel, M., Bennett, R., Cowen, T., Newton, M., Kelly, J., Skurnick, L., & Cianci, V. (buddy). (2012, October 14). The One-Page Magazine. New York Times, MM17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bartlett, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bartlett, 2014; Chin & Gray, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Chin & Gray, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Carreiras et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reflective Practice
ISSN (print)	1462-3943
ISSN (online)	1470-1103
Scope	Philosophy