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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bhattacharjee Y (2005) Sensitive technology. Schools fear impact of proposed license changes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 938–939.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fauci AS and Marston HD (2015) PUBLIC HEALTH. Toward an HIV vaccine: A scientific journey. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 386–387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boisvert CA, Mark-Kurik E and Ahlberg PE (2008) The pectoral fin of Panderichthys and the origin of digits. Nature 456 636–638.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Penner O, Pan RK, Petersen AM, Kaski K and Fortunato S (2013) On the predictability of future impact in science. Scientific Reports 3 3052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cardon A and Itmi M (2016) New Autonomous Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Duval B, van den Herik J, Loiseau S and Filipe J (2015) Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ICAART 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, January 10-12, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Giorello G and Sinigaglia C (2007) Space and Movement. On Husserl’s Geometry of the Visual Field. In Rediscovering Phenomenology: Phenomenological Essays on Mathematical Beings, Physical Reality, Perception and Consciousness, pp 103–123. Eds L Boi, P Kerszberg and F Patras. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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) Ada Lovelace And The Role Models Who Guide Women Towards A Life Less Ordinary. 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 (1991) Highway Safety: Motorcycle Helmet Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society. 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

Rodriguez F (2010) Grant proposal: Providing effective screening, training, and supervision for an at-risk youth mentoring program. 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

Kelly DA (2005) Keeping Your Computer and Its Contents Safe. New York Times 56.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bhattacharjee, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bhattacharjee, 2005; Fauci and Marston, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fauci and Marston, 2015)
Three authors: (Boisvert et al., 2008)
Four or more authors: (Penner 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