How to format your references using the International Journal of Stress Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Stress Management. 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

Shastri, N. (2006). Cell biology. Peptides, scrambled and stitched. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1398–1399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng, Z., & Menees, T. M. (2004). RNA branching and debranching in the yeast retrovirus-like element Ty1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5655), 240–243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Srisonphan, S., Kim, M., & Kim, H. K. (2014). Space charge neutralization by electron-transparent suspended graphene. Scientific Reports, 4, 3764.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Harris, R. G., Herzog, E. L., Bruscia, E. M., Grove, J. E., Van Arnam, J. S., & Krause, D. S. (2004). Lack of a fusion requirement for development of bone marrow-derived epithelia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5680), 90–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morton, A., Mengersen, K., Whitby, M., & Playford, G. (2013). Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Ladd, M. (2013). Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography: Analysis by X-rays and Neutrons (R. Palmer, Ed.; 5th ed. 2013). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Benjamini, I., Gurel-Gurevich, O., & Izkovsky, R. (2008). The Biham-Middleton-Levine Traffic Model for a Single Junction. In V. Sidoravicius & M. E. Vares (Eds.), In and Out of Equilibrium 2 (pp. 97–116). Birkhäuser.

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 International Journal of Stress Management.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, September 28). World’s First Three-Parent Baby Raises Questions About Long-Term Health Risks. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/worlds-first-three-parent-baby-raises-questions-about-long-term-health-risks/

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. (2003). Head Start: Better Data and Processes Needed to Monitor Underenrollment (GAO-04-17). 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

Cheung, L. C. (2017). Mixture models for left- and interval-censored data and concordance indices for composite survival outcomes [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

Otis, J. (2017, January 24). Raising Grandchildren in a Home That’s Brimming With Love, and Open to All. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shastri, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cheng & Menees, 2004; Shastri, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Cheng & Menees, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Harris et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Stress Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Stress Manag.
ISSN (print)	1072-5245
ISSN (online)	1573-3424
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting General Medicine General Psychology Applied Psychology Education