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 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

1. Endy D. Genomics. Reconstruction of the genomes. Science. 2008;319:1196–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Clausen J, Junge W. Detection of an intermediate of photosynthetic water oxidation. Nature. 2004;430:480–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Neale MJ, Pan J, Keeney S. Endonucleolytic processing of covalent protein-linked DNA double-strand breaks. Nature. 2005;436:1053–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shiozawa H, Bachmatiuk A, Stangl A, Cox DC, Silva SRP, Rümmeli MH, et al. Microscopic insight into the bilateral formation of carbon spirals from a symmetric iron core. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Myers FR. Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Leal Filho W, editor. Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lourakis MIA. Sparse Non-linear Least Squares Optimization for Geometric Vision. In: Daniilidis K, Maragos P, Paragios N, editors. Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 43–56.

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. Fang J. There Are Only Five Northern White Rhinos Left In The World. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. A-10 Close Air Support Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Mar. Report No.: 093514.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mitchell VM. A phenomenological study factors African American female college students face participating in engineering STEM majors [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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. Walsh MW. Senate Report Says Caterpillar Used Swiss Subsidiary to Reduce Taxes. New York Times. 2014 Apr 1;B3.

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
Scope