How to format your references using the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 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

Korotev RL. Planetary science. A unique chunk of the Moon. Science. 2004;305:622–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Brien SJ, Murphy WJ. Genomics. A dog’s breakfast? Science. 2003;301:1854–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregg MC, Sanford TB, Winkel DP. Reduced mixing from the breaking of internal waves in equatorial waters. Nature. 2003;422:513–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li J, Ning Y, Hedley W, et al. The Molecule Pages database. Nature. 2002;420:716–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Sinusoidal Vibration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2014.

An edited book

Berretti S, Thampi SM, Dasgupta S, editors. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications: Volume 2. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Eschmeier J. On the Maximal Ideal Space of a Sarason-Type Algebra on the Unit Ball. In: Douglas RG, Krantz SG, Sawyer ET, et al., eds. The Corona Problem: Connections Between Operator Theory, Function Theory, and Geometry. New York, NY: Springer 2014:69–83.

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 Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.

Blog post

Andrew E. Woolly Mammoths Suffered Major Birth Defects Before Extinction. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/woolly-mammoths-suffered-major-birth-defects-extinction/ (accessed 30 October 2018)

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. Graduate Medical Education: Trends in Training and Student Debt. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Klimek DL. Antigone’s reach: A feminine model for today’s businesswoman. 2008.

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

Billard M. Eight Arms To Embrace Your Pair. New York Times. 2010;E6.

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	Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Plann. Reprod. Health Care
ISSN (print)	1471-1893
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine