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]

D. Kleppner, Physics. A more precise fine structure constant, Science. 313 (2006) 448–449.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.S. Ungar, M. Sponheimer, The diets of early hominins, Science. 334 (2011) 190–193.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.H. Clutton-Brock, T. Coulson, J.M. Milner, Red deer stocks in the Highlands of Scotland, Nature. 429 (2004) 261–262.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Zhang, T.-T. Tang, C. Girit, Z. Hao, M.C. Martin, A. Zettl, M.F. Crommie, Y.R. Shen, F. Wang, Direct observation of a widely tunable bandgap in bilayer graphene, Nature. 459 (2009) 820–823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Snopek, The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Hermann, G.F. Sitdikova, T.M. Weiger, eds., Gasotransmitters: Physiology and Pathophysiology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Buragga, A. Dhir, A.A. Boreqqah, Facebook an Open Education Platform: Exploring Its Educational Uses, in: C. Stephanidis (Ed.), HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 18–22.

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]

E. Andrew, Scientists Discover Simple Technique That Cuts Calories In Rice By 60%, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/simple-cooking-technique-could-cut-calories-rice-60/ (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, Contractors’ Independent Research and Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Paredes, Critical Support for Central American Newcomer Youth and Schooling in One Southern California High School, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

N. MacFARQUHAR, A.E. Kramer, As the Ruble Swoons, Russians Desperately Shop, New York Times. (2014) 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
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