How to format your references using the Journal of Family Violence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Family Violence. 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

Merali, Z. (2011). Quantum computing: The power of discord. Nature, 474(7349), 24–26.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bashyam, R., & Zelenay, P. (2006). A class of non-precious metal composite catalysts for fuel cells. Nature, 443(7107), 63–66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoukis, N. C., Hall, B., & Geib, S. M. (2014). A computer model of insect traps in a landscape. Scientific reports, 4, 7015.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lee, D. Y., Shin, C. Y., Yoon, S. J., Lee, H. Y., Lee, W., Shrestha, N. K., et al. (2014). Enhanced photovoltaic performance of Cu-based metal-organic frameworks sensitized solar cell by addition of carbon nanotubes. Scientific reports, 4, 3930.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kurimoto, N., Fielding, D. I. K., & Musani, A. I. (2011). Endobronchial Ultrasonography. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Ólafsson, J. H., & Hay, R. J. (Eds.). (2016). Antibiotic and Antifungal Therapies in Dermatology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Heylings, J. R. (2014). Diffusion Cell Design. In V. P. Shah, H. I. Maibach, & J. Jenner (Eds.), Topical Drug Bioavailability, Bioequivalence, and Penetration (pp. 69–80). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Violence.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, July 19). Kepler Returns With Host Of New Planets, Some With Potential For Life. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/kepler-returns-with-host-of-new-planets-some-with-potential-for-life/. 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. (2014). Geostationary Weather Satellites: Launch Date Nears, but Remaining Schedule Risks Need to be Addressed (No. GAO-15-60). Washington, DC: 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

Gittens, B. E. (2009). Perceptions of the applicability of transformational leadership behavior to the leader role of academic department chairs: A study of selected universities in Virginia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Crow, K. (2001, August 26). Sitter Wanted: Must Supply Nuts. New York Times, p. 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Merali 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Bashyam and Zelenay 2006; Merali 2011).

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

Two authors: (Bashyam and Zelenay 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Family Violence
Abbreviation	J. Fam. Violence
ISSN (print)	0885-7482
ISSN (online)	1573-2851
Scope	Clinical Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law Sociology and Political Science