How to format your references using the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bohannon, J. (2009). The Gonzo Scientist. Do scientists like green porno? Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5948), 1620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, G. M., & Craik, C. S. (2009). Trapping moving targets with small molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5924), 213–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, K., Mitsui, K., & Yamanaka, S. (2003). Role of ERas in promoting tumour-like properties in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature, 423(6939), 541–545.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gsponer, J., Futschik, M. E., Teichmann, S. A., & Babu, M. M. (2008). Tight regulation of unstructured proteins: from transcript synthesis to protein degradation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5906), 1365–1368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, R. (2012). Rethinking Pragmatism. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Nicholson, W., & Baptiste-Roberts, K. (Eds.). (2014). Obesity During Pregnancy in Clinical Practice. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaudhuri, S., & Mukhopadhyay, U. (2014). FDI, SEZ and Agriculture. In U. Mukhopadhyay (Ed.), Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Evaluation (pp. 79–100). Springer India.

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 Reproductive and Infant Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, May 4). Creationist VP Mike Pence Will Head A Space Science Committee. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/creationist-vp-mike-pence-head-space-science-committee/

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). Information Technology: Executive office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines (GAO-03-751). 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

Davies, G. L. (2015). An analysis of Pat Metheny’s and Lyle Mays’s “Third Wind”: Arranging techniques and performance considerations [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Glanz, J., & Armendariz, A. (2017, March 8). Years of Questions, but Researcher Gets a Pass. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2009; Lee & Craik, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Craik, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Gsponer et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Reprod. Infant Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0264-6838
ISSN (online)	1469-672X
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Reproductive Medicine General Psychology