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. Budd PM. Chemistry. Putting order into polymer networks. Science. 2007;316:210–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yoshida N, Kanda J. Geochemistry. Tracking the Fukushima radionuclides. Science. 2012;336:1115–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rohde DLT, Olson S, Chang JT. Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans. Nature. 2004;431:562–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Baudat F, Buard J, Grey C, Fledel-Alon A, Ober C, Przeworski M, et al. PRDM9 is a major determinant of meiotic recombination hotspots in humans and mice. Science. 2010;327:836–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wiedenmannott W. Industrielle Wasseraufbereitung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

1. Liu K-K, Atkinson L, Quiñones R, Talaue-McManus L, editors. Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis. 1st ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lenaerts T, Defaweux A. Solving Hierarchically Decomposable Problems with the Evolutionary Transition Algorithm. In: Chiong R, Dhakal S, editors. Natural Intelligence for Scheduling, Planning and Packing Problems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 111–43.

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. O`Callaghan J. New Images Of Pluto From New Horizons Will Arrive This Week [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-will-start-sending-new-images-pluto-back-week/

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. Charter Schools: New Charter Schools Across the Country and in the District of Columbia Face Similar Start-Up Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Aug. Report No.: GAO-03-899.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fletcher B. Tropes of Dis/Ableism as Flexible Stigma: Examining Brenda Connors’ 2008 Report as an Instance of Dis/Ableist Polemical Rhetoric [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Chen DW, David Goodman J. In Naming Top Police Official, De Blasio May Signal Change. New York Times. 2013 Nov 30;A1.

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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