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

Babcock DF. Development. Smelling the roses? Science. 2003;299(5615):1993-1994.

A journal article with 2 authors

Qaim M, Zilberman D. Yield effects of genetically modified crops in developing countries. Science. 2003;299(5608):900-902.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu D, Amagai S, Bricken J. Science education. Engaging teachers, scientists, and multimedia to promote learning. Science. 2012;336(6088):1509.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chong H, Li P, Wang S, et al. Au25 clusters as electron-transfer catalysts induced the intramolecular cascade reaction of 2-nitrobenzonitrile. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lastovetsky A. Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

Gonzalez-Diaz R, Jimenez MJ, Medrano B, eds. Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 17th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2013, Seville, Spain, March 20-22, 2013. Proceedings. Vol 7749. Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Granov A, Tiutin L, Schwarz T. Breast Cancer. In: Granov A, Tiutin L, Schwarz T, eds. Positron Emission Tomography. Springer; 2013:59-76.

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

Carpineti A. Full “Rebirth” Of A Star Observed For The First Time. 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. Cost for Automatic Data Processing Activities in the Federal Government. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Braynen W. Beyond Price Signaling: Choice, Information and Justice. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2012.

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

Schwartz J. Exxon’s Unlikely Enemy. New York Times. November 21, 2016:D1.

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
Scope