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

Cyranoski D (2009) Japan election sparks science pledges. Nature 460 938.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huismans R and Beaumont C (2011) Depth-dependent extension, two-stage breakup and cratonic underplating at rifted margins. Nature 473 74–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lonsdorf EV, Eberly LE and Pusey AE (2004) Sex differences in learning in chimpanzees. Nature 428 715–716.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Masai H, Yamada Y, Suzuki Y, Teramura K, Kanemitsu Y and Yoko T (2013) Narrow energy gap between triplet and singlet excited states of Sn2+ in borate glass. Scientific Reports 3 3541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karlson B, Bria A, Lind J, Lönnqvist P and Norlin C (2005) Wireless Foresight. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Keeling JW and Khong TY (2007) Fetal and Neonatal Pathology. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ankerhold J (2015) Dissipation in Quantum Mechanical Systems: Where Is the System and Where Is the Reservoir? In Why More Is Different: Philosophical Issues in Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems, pp 55–67. Eds B Falkenburg and M Morrison. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew E (2015) What Would Happen If You Touched A Black Hole? 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 (1990) Automated Systems: Legislative Branch’s Efforts in Sharing Payroll/Personnel Systems. 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

Lewis TL (2010) Quantitative approach to technical performance measurement and technical risk analysis utilizing Bayesian methods and Monte Carlo simulation. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Billard M (2010) One Store Scoops Up The Lot. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski, 2009; Huismans and Beaumont, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Huismans and Beaumont, 2011)
Three authors: (Lonsdorf et al., 2004)
Four or more authors: (Masai et al., 2013)

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