How to format your references using the Basic and Clinical Andrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Basic and Clinical 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Dobson CM. Chemical space and biology. Nature. 2004;432:824–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kuper R, Kröpelin S. Climate-controlled Holocene occupation in the Sahara: motor of Africa’s evolution. Science. 2006;313:803–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Oxborrow M, Breeze JD, Alford NM. Room-temperature solid-state maser. Nature. 2012;488:353–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Grove TL, Till CB, Lev E, Chatterjee N, Médard E. Kinematic variables and water transport control the formation and location of arc volcanoes. Nature. 2009;459:694–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ursone P. How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Nesteruk I, editor. Supercavitation: Advances and Perspectives A collection dedicated to the 70th jubilee of Yu.N. Savchenko. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hardin CS, Taylor AD. The Denumerable Setting: One-Way Visibility. In: Taylor AD, editor. The Mathematics of Coordinated Inference: A Study of Generalized Hat Problems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 29–47.

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 Basic and Clinical Andrology.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. UK Approves “3 Parent Baby” Technique [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/uk-allows-ivf-using-dna-three-parents/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Intercollegiate Athletics: Recent Trends in Teams and Participants in National Collegiate Athletic Association Sports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jul. Report No.: GAO-07-535.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Salam S. Interplay between Fines Content and Strength Characteristics of CA 6 and CA 2 Crushed Limestone Aggregate [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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

1. Wilson M. Jurors See Key Evidence in Chelsea Bombing: Articles on How to Build Bombs. New York Times. 2017 Oct 3;A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Basic and Clinical Andrology
Abbreviation	Basic Clin. Androl.
ISSN (print)	1166-2654
ISSN (online)	2051-4190
Scope	Reproductive Medicine Urology