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

López-Urrutia A. Allometry: How reliable is the biological time clock? Nature 2003;424:269–270; discussion 270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tierney JE, deMenocal PB. Abrupt shifts in Horn of Africa hydroclimate since the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 2013;342:843–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsin J-P, Sheth A, Manley JL. RNAP II CTD phosphorylated on threonine-4 is required for histone mRNA 3’ end processing. Science 2011;334:683–686.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ho PK, Kim JS, Burroughes JH, Becker H, Li SF, Brown TM, Cacialli F, Friend RH. Molecular-scale interface engineering for polymer light-emitting diodes. Nature 2000;404:481–484.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vander Vorst A, Rosen A, Kotsuka Y. RF/Microwave Interaction with Biological Tissues. 2005; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hwang S-N, Lee H-S, Zhu J, editors. Handbook of Operations Analytics Using Data Envelopment Analysis. 2016;239:. Springer US: Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Veron J (charlie) EN. Coral Taxonomy and Evolution. In Dubinsky Z, Stambler N, editors. Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition 2011;, p. 37–45. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht.

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

Evans K. Giant Manta Rays Are Actually Predators Of The Deep. IFLScience [Internet] 2016; IFLScienceAvailable from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-manta-rays-are-actually-predators-of-the-deep/.

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. Electronic Government: Challenges to the Adoption of Smart Card Technology. 2003; 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

Cook EJ. Older Americans Act of 1965, Title III: A policy analysis. 2013; California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, 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

Burghardt LF. Ready for Their Close-Up, a Couple Consults. New York Times 2005;14LI12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (López-Urrutia, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (López-Urrutia, 2003; Tierney and deMenocal, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tierney and deMenocal, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ho et al., 2000)

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