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

Scully T. Public health: Society at large. Nature. 2014 Apr 17;508(7496):S50-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookes D, Etkina E. SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time. Science. 2010 Oct 29;330(6004):605–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray RD, Drummond AJ, Greenhill SJ. Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science. 2009 Jan 23;323(5913):479–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jacobs Z, Roberts RG, Galbraith RF, Deacon HJ, Grün R, Mackay A, et al. Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal. Science. 2008 Oct 31;322(5902):733–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake PP, Fabozzi FJ. The Basics of Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Kurosu M, editor. Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Platforms and Techniques: 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XVI, 434 p. 237 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9732).

A chapter in an edited book

Podinovski VV. DEA Models with Production Trade-offs and Weight Restrictions. In: Zhu J, editor. Data Envelopment Analysis: A Handbook of Models and Methods. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2015. p. 105–44. (International Series in Operations Research & Management 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 Asian Journal of Andrology.

Blog post

Andrew D. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Relax, The Expansion Of The Universe Is Still Accelerating. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/relax-the-expansion-of-the-universe-is-still-accelerating/

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. Observations on Software Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Sep. Report No.: 094677.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thompson K. An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois 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

Vecsey G. It Was a Magical Night, With a Cherry on Top. New York Times. 2012 Jun 3;SP2.

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