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. Verma IM. Medicine. Gene therapy that works. Science. 2013;341:853–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lewis JA, Ahn BY. Device fabrication: Three-dimensional printed electronics. Nature. 2015;518:42–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bryden HL, Longworth HR, Cunningham SA. Slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 25 degrees N. Nature. 2005;438:655–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kimizuka H, Kurokawa S, Yamaguchi A, Sakai A, Ogata S. Two-dimensional ordering of solute nanoclusters at a close-packed stacking fault: modeling and experimental analysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7318.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wilson DA. Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Tomalty R. America’s Urban Future: Lessons from North of the Border. Mallach A, editor. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gadella BM, Evans JP. Membrane Fusions During Mammalian Fertilization. In: Dittmar T, Zänker KS, editors. Cell Fusion in Health and Disease. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 65–80.

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. Taub B. Gay Termites Kill Straight Males To Steal Their Wives [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gay-termites-kill-straight-males-steal-wives/

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. Information Technology: Management of Interdependencies between Programs Supporting 2020 Census. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Jun. Report No.: GAO-16-723T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Doss A. Trapped within the white gaze: A DuBoisian approach to understanding the existential burden of being a black man in America [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2015.

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. Bernard TS. Reading, Writing and Rip-Offs. New York Times. 2016 Oct 21;BU1.

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