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.A. Norell, Paleontology. Fossilized feathers, Science 333 (2011) 1590–1591.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Makinoshima, M.S. Glickman, Regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope composition and virulence by intramembrane proteolysis, Nature 436 (2005) 406–409.

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]

E. Espagne, C. Dupuy, E. Huguet, L. Cattolico, B. Provost, N. Martins, M. Poirié, G. Periquet, J.M. Drezen, Genome sequence of a polydnavirus: insights into symbiotic virus evolution, Science 306 (2004) 286–289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Kivy, Once-Told Tales, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

S. Bowles, Introduzione all’economia politica: Le dinamiche del capitalismo, Springer, Milano, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.A. Luersen, R.H. Lopez, A Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Hybrid Laminated Composite Plates, in: P.A. Muñoz-Rojas (Ed.), Optimization of Structures and Components, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2013: pp. 49–71.

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, NASA Flies Satellites Through Explosion In Space – And Starts To Unravel Mystery Of Magnetism, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-flies-satellites-through-explosion-space-and-starts-unravel-mystery-magnetism/ (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, School Facilities: Physical Conditions in School Districts Receiving Impact Aid for Students Residing on Indian Lands, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.L. Forlizzi, Congruency of supervisor and counselor perceptions of actual and preferred counselor work behaviors, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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]

J.B. Stewart, For Tax Reform Lessons, Congress Needn’t Look Far, New York Times (2017) B1.

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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