How to format your references using the Contraception and Reproductive Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contraception and Reproductive Medicine. 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. Kling J. Careers in systems biology. Working the systems. Science. 2006;311:1305–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Soutoglou E, Misteli T. Activation of the cellular DNA damage response in the absence of DNA lesions. Science. 2008;320:1507–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gilbert IR, Jarvis PG, Smith H. Proximity signal and shade avoidance differences between early and late successional trees. Nature. 2001;411:792–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cheah MT, Wachter A, Sudarsan N, Breaker RR. Control of alternative RNA splicing and gene expression by eukaryotic riboswitches. Nature. 2007;447:497–500.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sullivan DM. Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Landau ID. Digital Control Systems: Design, Identification and Implementation. Gianluca Z, editor. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ahmed A, Mansor A, Albagul A. Design and Fabrication of an Automatic Sprinkler Fire Fighting System. In: Chouchane M, Fakhfakh T, Daly HB, Aifaoui N, Chaari F, editors. Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems - II: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems, CMSM’2015, March 23-25, Hammamet, Tunisia. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 41–9.

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 Contraception and Reproductive Medicine.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Scientists Turn Stem Cells Into Cancer-Destroyers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cells-turned-cancer-destroyers/

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. Comments on Proposed F.P.M.R. Amendment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Oct. Report No.: B-198809,B-199575.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zhao Y. Studies on Error Control of 3-D Zerotree Wavelet Video Streaming [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2005.

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. Yablonsky L. Motorcycle Derby. New York Times. 2010 Sep 26;ST3.

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	Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
Abbreviation	Contracept. Reprod. Med.
ISSN (online)	2055-7426
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