How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Andrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Andrology. 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

Rhein M. Oceanography. Drifters reveal deep circulation. Nature. 2000 Sep 7;407(6800):30–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seeley RJ, Sandoval DA. Neuroscience: weight loss through smoking. Nature. 2011 Jul 13;475(7355):176–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song TRA, Helmberger DV, Grand SP. Low-velocity zone atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States. Nature. 2004 Feb 5;427(6974):530–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jain R, Kabir K, Gilroy JB, Mitchell KAR, Wong KC, Hicks RG. High-temperature metal-organic magnets. Nature. 2007 Jan 18;445(7125):291–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan EP. Algorithmic Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Ware GW, Nigg HN, Doerge DR, editors. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. New York, NY: Springer; 2006. IX, 185 p. 20 illus. (Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; vol. 185).

A chapter in an edited book

Duyndam J. Sincerely Me. Enjoyment and the Truth of Hedonism. In: Hofmeyr B, editor. Radical Passivity: Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 67–78. (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy).

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 Asian Journal of Andrology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Earth’s Deepest Water May Be 1,000 Kilometers Below The Surface. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earths-deepest-water-may-be-1000-kilometers-below-the-surface/

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. Unmanned Aerial Systems: Status of Test Sites and International Developments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Mar. Report No.: GAO-15-486T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warwick-Smith KM. Remembering Prudence: Tracking the Iconography of a Cardinal Virtue to Her Resurgence in Depth Psychology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2017.

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

Pilon M. The Dazzle of Neon. New York Times. 2013 Nov 12;B12.

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	Asian Journal of Andrology
Abbreviation	Asian J. Androl.
ISSN (print)	1008-682X
ISSN (online)	1745-7262
Scope	General Medicine Urology