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

Jenkins A. Graduate journal: one of those days. Nature 2004;427:870.

A journal article with 2 authors

Slee EA, Lu X. Requirement for phosphorylation of P53 at Ser312 in suppression of chemical carcinogenesis. Sci Rep 2013;3:3105.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ramu Y, Xu Y, Lu Z. Enzymatic activation of voltage-gated potassium channels. Nature 2006;442:696–699.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ivanova AS, Tereshina MB, Ermakova GV, Belousov VV, Zaraisky AG. Agr genes, missing in amniotes, are involved in the body appendages regeneration in frog tadpoles. Sci Rep 2013;3:1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheller-Sheridan C. Basic Guide to Dental Instruments. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011.

An edited book

O’Brien H, Cairns P (eds). Why Engagement Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives of User Engagement in Digital Media. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kinfe TM, Vesper J. The Impact of Multichannel Microelectrode Recording (MER) in Deep Brain Stimulation of the Basal Ganglia. In: Nikkhah G, Pinsker M (eds) Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Vienna: Springer, 2013, 27–33.

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

Luntz S. Extinct Rodents Of Unusual Size Discovered In Timor. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extinct-rats-unusual-size-discovered-timor0/. 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. OJJDP Discretionary Grant Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mendez H. Examination of friendship and burnout among child welfare workers. 2009.

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

Murphy MJO. 101 Years Ago: ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Had its First Screenings. New York Times. February 5, 2016:C29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jenkins, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Jenkins, 2004; Slee and Lu, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Slee and Lu, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ivanova 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