How to format your references using the Research Integrity and Peer Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Integrity and Peer Review. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Konner M. The ties that bind. Nature. 2004;429:705.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Otto SP, Jarne P. Evolution. Haploids--hapless or happening? Science. 2001;292:2441–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bilham R, Gaur VK, Molnar P. Earthquakes. Himalayan seismic hazard. Science. 2001;293:1442–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hiddingh L, Raktoe RS, Jeuken J, Hulleman E, Noske DP, Kaspers GJL, et al. Identification of temozolomide resistance factors in glioblastoma via integrative miRNA/mRNA regulatory network analysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ansons AM, Davis H. Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

1. Kraus R. Phraseological Dictionary English - German: General Vocabulary in Technical and Scientific Texts. Baumgartner P, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Karwatowski M, Russek P, Wielgosz M, Koryciak S, Wiatr K. Energy Efficient Calculations of Text Similarity Measure on FPGA-Accelerated Computing Platforms. In: Wyrzykowski R, Deelman E, Dongarra J, Karczewski K, Kitowski J, Wiatr K, editors. Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 11th International Conference, PPAM 2015, Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015 Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 31–40.

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 Research Integrity and Peer Review.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Boeing Wants To Race SpaceX To The Surface Of Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Sep. Report No.: GAO-03-1018.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cisewski J. Generalized fiducial inference for mixed linear models [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2012.

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

1. Dewan S. Mostly White Forces in Mostly Black Towns: Police Struggle for Racial Diversity. New York Times. 2014 Sep 9;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Integrity and Peer Review
Abbreviation	Res. Integr. Peer Rev.
ISSN (online)	2058-8615
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