How to format your references using the Human Reproduction Update citation style

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

Meibom A. Geochemistry. The rise and fall of a great idea. Science 2008;319:418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stoltz DB, Whitfield JB. Virology. Making nice with viruses. Science 2009;323:884–885.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gambetta MC, Oktaba K, Müller J. Essential role of the glycosyltransferase sxc/Ogt in polycomb repression. Science 2009;325:93–96.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Beste C, Stock A-K, Ness V, Hoffmann R, Lukas C, Saft C. A novel cognitive-neurophysiological state biomarker in premanifest Huntington’s disease validated on longitudinal data. Sci Rep 2013;3:1797.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry WC. Introduction to Real Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Jones A (ed). Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. 1st ed. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang G, Gao Y, Chen L, Wang Y-J, Lin H-K. Regulation of the Novel Senescence Pathway by SKP2 E3 Ligase. In: Hayat MA (ed) Tumor Dormancy, Quiescence, and Senescence, Volume 2: Aging, Cancer, and Noncancer Pathologies. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014, 33–43.

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 Human Reproduction Update.

Blog post

Fang J. Higgs Boson Seen At Work For The First Time. IFLScience 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/higgs-boson-seen-work-first-time/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Request for Assistance on Allegations From K. R. Higgins Concerning Planning Research Corporation’s Contract at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mueller K. Biases in the Selection Process Against Applicants with Tattoos. 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

Brantley B. Capturing the Fury of Womanhood. New York Times. April 20, 2016:C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meibom, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Meibom, 2008; Stoltz and Whitfield, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Stoltz and Whitfield, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Beste et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Reproduction Update
Abbreviation	Hum. Reprod. Update
ISSN (print)	1355-4786
ISSN (online)	1460-2369
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine