How to format your references using the Reproduction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reproduction. 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

Williams R (2011) Biomarkers: warning signs. Nature 475 S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miroshnichenko AE and Kivshar YS (2013) Applied physics. Polarization traffic control for surface plasmons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 283–284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke RC, Poo M-M and Dan Y (2005) Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location. Nature 434 221–225.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Koehl MA, Koseff JR, Crimaldi JP, McCay MG, Cooper T, Wiley MB and Moore PA (2001) Lobster sniffing: antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 1948–1951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cronin R (2012) Reading Victorian Poetry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Treharne H, King S, Henson M and Schneider S (2005) ZB 2005: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B: 4th International Conference of B and Z Users, Guildford, UK, April 13-15, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoang MP and Mihm MC (2014) Spindle and Epithelioid Cell (Spitz) Nevus and Variants. In Melanocytic Lesions: A Case Based Approach, pp 143–177. Eds MP Hoang and MC Mihm Jr. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Reproduction.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Gene-Editing Technique CRISPR-Cas9 May Be Causing Hundreds Of Genetic Mutations. In IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 (2012) Information Technology Reform: Progress Made; More Needs to Be Done to Complete Actions and Measure Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krishna S (2017) Pediatric Pal. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rossellini I (1996) The Sphinx: Greta Garbo. New York Times 685.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Williams, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Williams, 2011; Miroshnichenko and Kivshar, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Miroshnichenko and Kivshar, 2013)
Three authors: (Froemke et al., 2005)
Four or more authors: (Koehl et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reproduction
Abbreviation	J Reprod Fertil
ISSN (print)	1470-1626
ISSN (online)	1741-7899
Scope	Cell Biology Endocrinology Embryology Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine