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. Lloyd C. Plant science. Microtubules make tracks for cellulose. Science. 2006;312:1482–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hashizume K, Chaussidon M. A non-terrestrial 16O-rich isotopic composition for the protosolar nebula. Nature. 2005;434:619–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Suzuki H, Imura J-I, Aihara K. Chaotic Ising-like dynamics in traffic signals. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1127.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tanaka Y, Tsuda S, Kunikata H, Sato J, Kokubun T, Yasuda M, et al. Profiles of extracellular miRNAs in the aqueous humor of glaucoma patients assessed with a microarray system. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5089.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Eric G. F, Yvonne R. Growing Pains. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Griffiths N, Chao K-M, editors. Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zhao L, Sakr S, Liu A, Bouguettaya A. Database Replication of NoSQL Database-as-a-Service. In: Sakr S, Liu A, Bouguettaya A, editors. Cloud Data Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 67–80.

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. Andrew E. Resetting the Timeline on the Evolution of Flowers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/resetting-timeline-evolution-flowers/

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. Race to the Top: Survey of School Districts’ Capacity to Implement Reform (GAO-15-317SP, April 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-295. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Apr. Report No.: GAO-15-317SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ilag GM. An examination of the entity participants’ collaborative partnerships within the United Nations Global Compact [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

1. Greenhouse L. High Court Puts Limits On Patents. New York Times. 2007 May 1;C1.

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