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

Smaglik P. Guiding hands. Nature. 2005 Apr 7;434(7034):801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burlini L, Di Toro G. Geophysics. Volcanic symphony in the lab. Science. 2008 Oct 10;322(5899):207–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

King JR, Bekinschtein T, Dehaene S. Comment on “Preserved feedforward but impaired top-down processes in the vegetative state.” Science. 2011 Dec 2;334(6060):1203; author reply 1203.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Groppe J, Greenwald J, Wiater E, Rodriguez-Leon J, Economides AN, Kwiatkowski W, et al. Structural basis of BMP signalling inhibition by the cystine knot protein Noggin. Nature. 2002 Dec 12;420(6916):636–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laster B. Professional Git®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Kozák J. The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters. Čermák V, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. 231 p. 129 illus., 92 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakatani A, Shimokawa T. Microstructural Evolution in Crystalline Metal Induced by Plastic Deformation. In: Bai YL, Zheng QS, Wei YG, editors. IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Beijing, China, June 27–30, 2005. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 25–35. (Solid Mechanics and its Applications).

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. New York Medical Examiners Not Required To Return All Organs, Court Rules [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-york-medical-examiners-not-required-return-all-organs-court-rules/

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. Internal Revenue Service: 2001 Tax Filing Season, Systems Modernization, and Security of Electronic Filing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Apr. Report No.: GAO-01-595T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson B. Forging a New World Nationalism: Ancient Mexico in United States art and visual culture, 1933–1945 [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Branch J. Even in a Dog Doping Scandal, a Cry of Sabotage. New York Times. 2017 Oct 24;B11.

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

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