How to format your references using the Fertility Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fertility Research and Practice. 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. Guarente L. Sirtuins as potential targets for metabolic syndrome. Nature. 2006;444:868–74.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Monsonego A, Weiner HL. Immunotherapeutic approaches to Alzheimer’s disease. Science. 2003;302:834–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ganem NJ, Godinho SA, Pellman D. A mechanism linking extra centrosomes to chromosomal instability. Nature. 2009;460:278–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cui B, Song C, Li F, Wang GY, Mao HJ, Peng JJ, et al. Tuning the entanglement between orbital reconstruction and charge transfer at a film surface. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Oyama T. Post-Crisis Risk Management. 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Burger JM, Webber CF, Klinck P, editors. Intelligent Leadership: Constructs for Thinking Education Leaders. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chasanis V, Likas A, Galatsanos N. A Support Vector Machine Approach for Video Shot Detection. In: Tsihrintzis GA, Virvou M, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 45–54.

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 Fertility Research and Practice.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Kangaroos Have Five Legs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kangaroos-have-five-legs/

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. Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Managing Competing Pressures Is Critical to Achieving Program Goals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jul. Report No.: GAO-03-1012T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Waldner BW. Determining Relationships Between Technology Acceptance and Employee Attitudes Toward Automated Workflows in the Oil Industry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2013.

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. Poniewozik J. Streaming at the Top of Her Lungs. New York Times. 2016 Oct 14;C3.

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	Fertility Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Fertil. Res. Pract.
ISSN (online)	2054-7099
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