How to format your references using the Human Reproduction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human 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

Maxmen A. Three technologies that changed genetics. Nature 2015;528:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baudisch A, Vaupel JW. Evolution. Getting to the root of aging. Science 2012;338:618–619.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradshaw D, Warren JE, Rosseinsky MJ. Reversible concerted ligand substitution at alternating metal sites in an extended solid. Science 2007;315:977–980.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fabra M, Raldúa D, Power DM, Deen PMT, Cerdà J. Marine fish egg hydration is aquaporin-mediated. Science 2005;307:545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouchet O. Wireless Optical Communications. 2012; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lai KW. Advances in Medical Diagnostic Technology. In Hum YC, Mohamad Salim MI, Ong S-B, Utama NP, Myint YM, Mohd Noor N, Supriyanto E, editors. 2014; Springer: Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Thielen C, Krumke SO. Truthful Mechanisms for Selfish Routing and Two-Parameter Agents. In Mavronicolas M, Papadopoulou VG, editors. Algorithmic Game Theory: Second International Symposium, SAGT 2009, Paphos, Cyprus, October 18-20, 2009 Proceedings 2009;, p. 36–47. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Human Reproduction.

Blog post

Andrew E. Laser Device can Diagnose Malaria in 20 Seconds. IFLScience 2015; IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. Financial Management Systems: DHS Faces Challenges to Successfully Consolidating Its Existing Disparate Systems. 2009; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson C. Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes. 2012; Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA.

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

Hodara S. In a Valley of Invention. New York Times 2016;WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Baudisch and Vaupel, 2012; Maxmen, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Baudisch and Vaupel, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Fabra et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Reproduction
Abbreviation	Hum. Reprod.
ISSN (print)	0268-1161
ISSN (online)	1460-2350
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Rehabilitation Reproductive Medicine