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. Chazelle B. Computer science. Coding and computing join forces. Science. 2007;317:1691–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. LaCour MJ, Green DP. Political science. When contact changes minds: an experiment on transmission of support for gay equality. Science. 2014;346:1366–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Redford KH, Jensen DB, Breheny JJ. Ecology. Integrating the captive and the wild. Science. 2012;338:1157–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shao W, Dong H, Wang Z, Hu W. Touching polymer chains by organic field-effect transistors. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Islam MR, Speight JG. Peak Energy: Myth or Reality? Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Hesthaven JS. Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Parametrized Partial Differential Equations. 1st ed. 2016. Rozza G, Stamm B, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mekid S, Starr A, Pietruszkiewicz R. Intelligent Wireless Sensors. In: Holmberg K, Adgar A, Arnaiz A, Jantunen E, Mascolo J, Mekid S, editors. E-maintenance. London: Springer; 2010. p. 83–123.

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. Hale T. The Story Of The Only Confirmed Person To Be Hit By A Meteorite [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-story-of-the-only-confirmed-person-to-be-hit-by-a-meteorite/

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. Positive Train Control: Additional Oversight Needed As Most Railroads Do Not Expect to Meet 2015 Implementation Deadline. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Sep. Report No.: GAO-15-739.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Brown CP. Range vs. register: An important distinction in choral repertoire for the adolescent male [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2010.

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. Brantley B. Theater; Cue the Mayhem: Gogol Returns. New York Times. 2017 May 24;AR4.

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

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