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]

M. Eisenstein, Plant breeding: Discovery in a dry spell, Nature 501 (2013) S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Wei, X. Li, Differential effects of propranolol on conditioned hyperactivity and locomotor sensitization induced by morphine in rats, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3786.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Ikegami, Y. Tsutsumi, K. Kono, Chiral symmetry breaking in superfluid 3He-A, Science 341 (2013) 59–62.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.J. Opperman, G.E. Galloway, J. Fargione, J.F. Mount, B.D. Richter, S. Secchi, Land use. Sustainable floodplains through large-scale reconnection to rivers, Science 326 (2009) 1487–1488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.S. Cheng, J.C. Tong, Building Sustainability in East Asia, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

E. Alba, F. Chicano, G. Luque, eds., Smart Cities: First International Conference, Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, June 15-17, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Marinca, N. Herisanu, The Third Alternative of the Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method, in: N. Herisanu (Ed.), The Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method: Engineering Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 391–465.

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]

T. Hale, Video Shows Otters Drown And Kill A Monkey At A Zoo, IFLScience (2016).

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, NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.A. Boylan, An exploratory case study: U. S. Army’s leadership development for organizational leaders, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2017.

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]

L. Saslow, Nassau and Union in Deal to Avoid Layoffs, New York Times (2009) LI2.

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