How to format your references using the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 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 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

Collins FS. Retrospective: Victor A. McKusick (1921-2008). Science. 2008 Aug 15;321(5891):925.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belcher CM, McElwain JC. Limits for combustion in low O2 redefine paleoatmospheric predictions for the Mesozoic. Science. 2008 Aug 29;321(5893):1197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bard E, Hamelin B, Delanghe-Sabatier D. Deglacial meltwater pulse 1B and Younger Dryas sea levels revisited with boreholes at Tahiti. Science. 2010 Mar 5;327(5970):1235–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu Z, Wang Y, Ai X, Tu W, Pan M. Photoregenerative I⁻/I₃⁻ couple as a liquid cathode for proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 28;4:6795.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Numai T. Laser Diodes and their Applications to Communications and Information Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Caballero-Anthony M, Chang Y, Putra NA, editors. Rethinking Energy Security in Asia: A Non-Traditional View of Human Security. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. IX, 103 p. 6 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace; vol. 2).

A chapter in an edited book

Stocklöw C, Kamieth F. Semantic Visualization of Wireless Sensor Networks for Elderly Monitoring. In: Ruyter B de, Wichert R, Keyson DV, Markopoulos P, Streitz N, Divitini M, et al., editors. Ambient Intelligence: First International Joint Conference, AmI 2010, Malaga, Spain, November 10-12, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 41–50. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 American Journal of Reproductive Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. World’s Most Powerful Laser Is 2,000 Trillion Watts – But What’s It For? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/world-s-most-powerful-laser-2000-trillion-watts-what-s-it/

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. Defaulted Student Loans: Guaranty Agencies’ Collection Practices and Procedures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Jul. Report No.: HRD-86-114BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCahill TP. Teacher perceptions of response to intervention for English learners [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2014.

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

Rothenberg B. Sharapova’s Entry to Wimbledon: Qualify. New York Times. 2017 May 19;D4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Reprod. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1046-7408
ISSN (online)	1600-0897
Scope	Immunology Obstetrics and Gynaecology