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

Dangl JL. Plant science. Nibbling at the plant cell nucleus. Science. 2007 Feb 23;315(5815):1088–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huberman AD, El-Danaf RN. Blindness: Assassins of eyesight. Nature. 2015 Nov 26;527(7579):456–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haskell JP, Ritchie ME, Olff H. Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships for mammal and bird home ranges. Nature. 2002 Aug 1;418(6897):527–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pfeifer MA, Williams GJ, Vartanyants IA, Harder R, Robinson IK. Three-dimensional mapping of a deformation field inside a nanocrystal. Nature. 2006 Jul 6;442(7098):63–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith EM. Advances in Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Batten L, Li G, editors. Applications and Techniques in Information Security: 6th International Conference, ATIS 2016, Cairns, QLD, Australia, October 26-28, 2016, Proceedings. Singapore: Springer; 2016. XVI, 163 p. 30 illus. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 651).

A chapter in an edited book

Sullivan P, Clarke D, Clarke B. Using Mathematical Tasks Arising from Contexts. In: Clarke D, Clarke B, editors. Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 39–56.

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; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. How To See Shooting Stars Tonight. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/leonid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight/

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. IRS Operations: Significant Challenges in Financial Management and Systems Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Mar. Report No.: T-AIMD-96-56.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yuan J. Two Essays on Asset Pricing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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

Williams J. A Love of Science Fiction Collides With a Classic. New York Times. 2017 Sep 3;C2.

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