How to format your references using the Middle East Fertility Society Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Middle East Fertility Society Journal. 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

[1]

E.S. Reich, Whistleblowers at risk as science fails to correct itself, Nature 460 (2009) 949.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Delbarco-Trillo, M.H. Ferkin, Male mammals respond to a risk of sperm competition conveyed by odours of conspecific males, Nature 431 (2004) 446–449.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Mossinger, M. White, P. Goymer, Coastal regions, Nature 504 (2013) 35.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Xu, C. Peng, V.G. Sankaran, Z. Shao, E.B. Esrick, B.G. Chong, G.C. Ippolito, Y. Fujiwara, B.L. Ebert, P.W. Tucker, S.H. Orkin, Correction of sickle cell disease in adult mice by interference with fetal hemoglobin silencing, Science 334 (2011) 993–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.L. Loriaux, A Biographical History of Endocrinology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

E. Greenbaum, D. Zhou, eds., Implantable Neural Prostheses 1: Devices and Applications, Springer US, New York, NY, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Smith, Families of Fast Elliptic Curves from ℚ-curves, in: K. Sako, P. Sarkar (Eds.), Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2013: 19th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Bengaluru, India, December 1-5, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 61–78.

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 Middle East Fertility Society Journal.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Programmers Are Having A Huge Discussion About The Unethical And Illegal Things They’ve Been Asked To Do, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/programmers-are-having-a-huge-discussion-about-the-unethical-and-illegal-things-theyve-been-asked-to-do/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Transportation Safety: Federal Highway Administration Should Conduct Research to Determine Best Practices in Permitting Oversize Vehicles, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.O. Kidder, Self-administered HPV Testing as a Cervical Cancer Screening Option: Exploring the Perspectives of Hispanic and Arab Women in the United States, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2014.

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

[1]

D.M. Herszenhorn, E. Barry, Russian Voters Send a Message To Putin’s Party, New York Times (2011) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Middle East Fertility Society Journal
ISSN (print)	1110-5690
Scope