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. Morton O. PARTICLE PHYSICS: The Final Tally Leaves LEP a Probable Loser. Science. 2000;290:1274a.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Blunier T, Brook EJ. Timing of millennial-scale climate change in Antarctica and Greenland during the last glacial period. Science. 2001;291:109–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pham TCT, Kim HS, Yoon KB. Growth of uniformly oriented silica MFI and BEA zeolite films on substrates. Science. 2011;334:1533–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Palacios IM, Gatfield D, St Johnston D, Izaurralde E. An eIF4AIII-containing complex required for mRNA localization and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Nature. 2004;427:753–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Yanni SB. Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Lucchese M, Scopinaro N, editors. Minimally Invasive Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Principles and Technical Aspects. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Simpson GA, Berlet GC. Bunions in Athletes. In: Philbin TM, editor. Sports Injuries of the Foot: Evolving Diagnosis and Treatment. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. p. 35–48.

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. O`Callaghan J. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Wants Humans To Colonize The Moon With His Help [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazons-jeff-bezos-wants-humans-to-colonize-the-moon-with-his-help/

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. Aviation Security: Federal Efforts to Secure U.S.-Bound Air Cargo Are in the Early Stages and Could Be Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Apr. Report No.: GAO-07-660.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Heyer C. Advocacy Services for College Students With Disabilities: A Grant Proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Marx L. When ‘I Do’ Still Sounds Like a Good Idea. New York Times. 2016 Sep 2;ST18.

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

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