How to format your references using the Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine. 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

Massagué J. G1 cell-cycle control and cancer. Nature. 2004;432(7015):298-306.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ong NP, Cava RJ. Physics. Electronic frustration on a triangular lattice. Science. 2004;305(5680):52-53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmauss C, Lee-McDermott Z, Medina LR. Trans-generational effects of early life stress: the role of maternal behavior. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4873.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Aravin AA, Sachidanandam R, Girard A, Fejes-Toth K, Hannon GJ. Developmentally regulated piRNA clusters implicate MILI in transposon control. Science. 2007;316(5825):744-747.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimitriadis G. Introduction to Nonlinear Aeroelasticity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Holder RD, Mitton S, eds. Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy. Vol 395. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Furneaux B. Task-Technology Fit Theory: A Survey and Synopsis of the Literature. In: Dwivedi YK, Wade MR, Schneberger SL, eds. Information Systems Theory: Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society, Vol. 1. Integrated Series in Information Systems. Springer; 2012:87-106.

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 Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Man Fiddles On His Violin During His Own Brain Surgery. IFLScience. Published August 17, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/man-fiddles-his-violin-during-his-own-brain-surgery/

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. Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies Are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams AW. Shepherd Leadership of Church of God Pastors and How This Relates to Ministerial Effectiveness. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 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

Pilon M. In Suit, Ex-Employee Says Drug-Test Firm Mishandled Result. New York Times. April 26, 2014:D6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Reprod. Health Med.
ISSN (print)	2214-420X
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