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]

Carslaw K. Atmospheric physics: Cosmic rays, clouds and climate. Nature 2009; 460:332–333.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Conover DO, Munch SB. Sustaining fisheries yields over evolutionary time scales. Science 2002; 297:94–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kaan HYK, Hackney DD, Kozielski F. The structure of the kinesin-1 motor-tail complex reveals the mechanism of autoinhibition. Science 2011; 333:883–885.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

[1]

Sharon E, Galun M, Sharon D, Basri R, Brandt A. Hierarchy and adaptivity in segmenting visual scenes. Nature 2006; 442:810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stewart R. Plautus and Roman Slavery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Grueau C, Gustavo Rocha J (eds.). Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management: First International Conference, GISTAM 2015, Barcelona, Spain, April 28-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 582. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dille JA. Plant Morphology and the Critical Period of Weed Control. In: Young SL, Pierce FJ (eds.), Automation: The Future of Weed Control in Cropping Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014:51–69.

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]

Andrew E. World’s First Robot-Run Hotel Due To Open In Japan This July; 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-robot-run-hotel-due-open-japan-july/. 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. Management Improvements Essential for Key Automated Systems at the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hannington RL. Power and display in the court music of Augustus the Strong: The influences affecting the composition of Johann David Heinichens’s sinfonias. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2011.

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]

Feeney K. A Produce Auction With an Eye to Survival. New York Times 2008:NJ9.

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