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

Haufe G. Chemistry. Putting a greenhouse gas to work. Science. 2012 Dec 7;338(6112):1298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox CM, Chao BF. Detection of a large-scale mass redistribution in the terrestrial system since 1998. Science. 2002 Aug 2;297(5582):831–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Akil H, Martone ME, Van Essen DC. Challenges and opportunities in mining neuroscience data. Science. 2011 Feb 11;331(6018):708–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Klein-Seetharaman J, Oikawa M, Grimshaw SB, Wirmer J, Duchardt E, Ueda T, et al. Long-range interactions within a nonnative protein. Science. 2002 Mar 1;295(5560):1719–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams T, Turton V. Trading Economics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Kokhanovsky AA, editor. Light Scattering Reviews 3: Light Scattering and Reflection. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. XXII, 408 p. 250 illus. in color. (Springer Praxis Books).

A chapter in an edited book

Plonsey R, Barr RC. Action Potentials. In: Barr RC, editor. Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007. p. 97–153.

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

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Spider Mites Will Choose A Dead Mate Over A Live One. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-spider-mites-prefer-their-mates-dead/

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. The Effects of Changes in the Telecommunications Industry on FCC Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Sep. Report No.: 122443.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hall ZB II. General Relativistic Non-Radial Oscillations in Compact Stars [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Davidson A. God Save the British Economy. New York Times. 2012 Dec 19;MM18.

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