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. Fox RO. Obituary: Frederic Richards (1925-2009). Nature. 2009;457:976.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zimmerman JB, Anastas PT. Chemistry. Toward substitution with no regrets. Science. 2015;347:1198–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Krug AZ, Jablonski D, Valentine JW. Signature of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in the modern biota. Science. 2009;323:767–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lauwereyns J, Watanabe K, Coe B, Hikosaka O. A neural correlate of response bias in monkey caudate nucleus. Nature. 2002;418:413–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kampen TU. Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

1. Prade H, Subrahmanian VS, editors. Scalable Uncertainty Management: First International Conference, SUM 2007, Washington,DC, USA, October 10-12, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fazli S, Suk H-I, Lee S-W, Müller K-R. Multifrequency Analysis of Brain-Computer Interfaces. In: Lee S-W, Bülthoff HH, Müller K-R, editors. Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 49–60.

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. Andrew D. The Single Best Type Of Exercise For Your Brain, According To Scientists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-single-best-type-of-exercise-for-your-brain-according-to-scientists/

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. FCC’s Decision To Consolidate Licensing Division in Gettysburg, Pa. Was Made Without Adequate Analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Dec. Report No.: CED-80-27.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Moncur HB. Exploring primary caregivers’ perceptions of the effects of secondhand marijuana smoke on children: A quantitative study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Kenigsberg B. Viceroy’s House. New York Times. 2017 Aug 31;C9.

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
Scope

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