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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Barouch, D. H. (2008). Challenges in the development of an HIV-1 vaccine. Nature, 455(7213), 613–619.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hsieh-Wilson, L. C., & Griffin, M. E. (2013). Chemistry. Improving biologic drugs via total chemical synthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6164), 1332–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonifacio, P., Limongi, M., & Chieffi, A. (2003). Astrophysics: How did the metals in a giant star originate? Nature, 422(6934), 834.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hall, C., Tharakan, P., Hallock, J., Cleveland, C., & Jefferson, M. (2003). Hydrocarbons and the evolution of human culture. Nature, 426(6964), 318–322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolley, T. (2013). Low Impact Building. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Myers, E. N., & Ferris, R. L. (Eds.). (2007). Salivary Gland Disorders. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, S. E., & Deng, K. (2014). Recent Advances in Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control Method. In L. Liu, Q. Zhu, L. Cheng, Y. Wang, & D. Zhao (Eds.), Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Identification and Control (pp. 79–97). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 29). Rising Seas Could Drown Turtle Eggs: New Research. 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. (1970). Management Controls Over Use of ADP For Scientific Applications (092832). 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

Small, C. R. (2013). An investigation on the effect(s) of different modes of intervention for weight management on HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol production among United States veterans [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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, January 7). Justices to Say When Police Can Enter Private Home. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barouch, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Barouch, 2008; Hsieh-Wilson & Griffin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hsieh-Wilson & Griffin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hall et al., 2003)

About the journal

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