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]

Smith C. Genomics: big tasks for small molecules. Nature 2005; 435:991.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stahler S, Palla F. Astronomy. The beat of young stars. Science 2014; 345:514–515.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sawamura H, Shima K, Tanji J. Numerical representation for action in the parietal cortex of the monkey. Nature 2002; 415:918–922.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

[1]

Refojo D, Schweizer M, Kuehne C, Ehrenberg S, Thoeringer C, Vogl AM, Dedic N, Schumacher M, von Wolff G, Avrabos C, Touma C, Engblom D, et al. Glutamatergic and dopaminergic neurons mediate anxiogenic and anxiolytic effects of CRHR1. Science 2011; 333:1903–1907.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lhabitant F-S. Hedge Funds. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Macintyre M, Parry G, Angelis J (eds.). Service Design and Delivery. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pfeiffer F. Dynamics of Hydraulic Systems. In: Pfeiffer F (ed.), Mechanical System Dynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008:187–212.

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]

Andrews R. Electrical Shocks Bring Patients Out Of Comatose States For Up To A Week; 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/electrical-shocks-bring-patients-out-comatose-states-week/. 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. Emergency Transportation Relief: Agencies Could Improve Collaboration Begun during Hurricane Sandy Response. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wheeler TJ. Efficient construction of accurate multiple alignments and large-scale phylogenies. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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. Say Cheese At This Deli And You’ll Get 3 Dozen Types. New York Times 2008:NJ11.

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

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