How to format your references using the Biology of Reproduction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biology of Reproduction. 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

[1]

Bohannon J. Why do scientists dance? Science 2010; 330:752.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wilks J, Golovkina T. Immunology. Interfering with interferons. Science 2015; 347:233–234.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sachs JP, Anderson RF, Lehman SJ. Glacial surface temperatures of the southeast Atlantic Ocean. Science 2001; 293:2077–2079.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

[1]

Cox BC, Dearman JA, Brancheck J, Zindy F, Roussel MF, Zuo J. Generation of Atoh1-rtTA transgenic mice: a tool for inducible gene expression in hair cells of the inner ear. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Duffy DJ. Introduction to C++ for Financial Engineers. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Kobayashi-Hillary M (ed.). Building a Future with BRICs: The Next Decade for Offshoring. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Antontsev S, Shmarev S. Space Localization of Energy Solutions. In: Shmarev S (ed.), Evolution PDEs with Nonstandard Growth Conditions: Existence, Uniqueness, Localization, Blow-up. Paris: Atlantis Press; 2015:185–217.

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 Biology of Reproduction.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. The Winners Of The 2016 Underwater Photography Competition Are Absolutely Amazing; 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-winners-of-the-2016-underwater-photography-competition-are-absolutely-amazing/. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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. Corrections and Pretrial Diversion Projects Funded by Grants From LEAA. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Martin LK. Norway leads the world in gender equality and work-life balance: A qualitative life course study of Norwegian women. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2016.

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]

Mallozzi VM. For Their Wedding, the Moon Dimmed the Lights. New York Times 2017:ST13.

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	Biology of Reproduction
Abbreviation	Biol. Reprod.
ISSN (print)	0006-3363
ISSN (online)	1529-7268
Scope	Cell Biology General Medicine