How to format your references using the Journal of Reproductive Immunology citation style

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

Zewail, A.H., 2010. Four-dimensional electron microscopy. Science 328, 187–193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Corma, A., Serna, P., 2006. Chemoselective hydrogenation of nitro compounds with supported gold catalysts. Science 313, 332–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polyak, V., Hill, C., Asmerom, Y., 2008. Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems. Science 319, 1377–1380.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Navarro, L., Jay, F., Nomura, K., He, S.Y., Voinnet, O., 2008. Suppression of the microRNA pathway by bacterial effector proteins. Science 321, 964–967.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bhalla, S., Moharana, S., Talakokula, V., Kaur, N., 2016. Piezoelectric Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Chakrabarti, A. (Ed.), 2015. ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1: Theory, Research Methodology, Aesthetics, Human Factors and Education, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Mestechkina, T., Son, N.D., Shin, J.Y., 2014. Parenting in Vietnam, in: Selin, H. (Ed.), Parenting Across Cultures: Childrearing, Motherhood and Fatherhood in Non-Western Cultures, Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 47–57.

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 Immunology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. State Of The World’s Plants Report Highlights 28,000 Species With Medicinal Properties [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Department of Energy’s Consolidation of Information Processing Activities Needs More Attention (No. EMD-78-60). 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

Cinquemani, S., 2017. Fostering New Spaces: Challenging Dominant Constructions of Power and Knowledge in Early Childhood Art Education (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Wagner, J., 2016. Patchwork Mets Give Their Playoff Hopes a Boost. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zewail, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Corma and Serna, 2006; Zewail, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Corma and Serna, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Navarro et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Reproductive Immunology
Abbreviation	J. Reprod. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0165-0378
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine