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

Campbell PN. Health care in former soviet republics. Science. 2000 Jun 23;288(5474):2131b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld N, Pace NR. Retrospective. Carl R. Woese (1928-2012). Science. 2013 Feb 8;339(6120):661.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suttle KB, Thomsen MA, Power ME. Species interactions reverse grassland responses to changing climate. Science. 2007 Feb 2;315(5812):640–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gu L, Geders TW, Wang B, Gerwick WH, Håkansson K, Smith JL, et al. GNAT-like strategy for polyketide chain initiation. Science. 2007 Nov 9;318(5852):970–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown M, Cutler TJ. Haematology Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Glück R, Yokoyama T, editors. Reversible Computation: 4th International Workshop, RC 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2-3, 2012. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. X, 241 p. 70 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7581).

A chapter in an edited book

Bravetti M, Zavattaro G. Towards a Unifying Theory for Choreography Conformance and Contract Compliance. In: Lumpe M, Vanderperren W, editors. Software Composition: 6th International Symposium, SC 2007, Braga, Portugal, March 24-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 34–50. (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]. Do Animals Feel Pain Like We Do? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/do-animals-feel-pain-we-do/

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. Information on Materials and Practices for Improving Highway Pavement Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Nov. Report No.: GAO-13-32R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Grady CR. Journeys of our ancestors: Conservation science approaches to the analysis of cultural material [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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

Blecher G. The Diners Fade Away. New York Times. 2016 Nov 24;MB1.

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