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

Petley DN (2013) Geophysics. Characterizing giant landslides. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 1395–1396.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mohr JJ and Forsberg R (2002) Remote sensing: searching for new islands in sea ice. Nature 416 35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu K, Cao P and Heath JR (2010) Graphene visualizes the first water adlayers on mica at ambient conditions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 1188–1191.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cardinale BJ, Srivastava DS, Duffy JE, Wright JP, Downing AL, Sankaran M and Jouseau C (2006) Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature 443 989–992.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biegelman MT and Biegelman DR (2010) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rogers GAJ (2008) Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries, and Legacy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Poggi I and Vincze L (2009) Gesture, Gaze and Persuasive Strategies in Political Discourse. In Multimodal Corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications, pp 73–92. Eds M Kipp, J-C Martin, P Paggio and D Heylen. 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

Andrews R (2017) Discovery Of The Source Of World’s Largest Methane Pool Is Anything But Good News. 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 (1995) Federal Lands: Information on the Use and Impact of Off-Highway Vehicles. 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

Mai J (2017) College Application Behaviors: Factors Impacting the College Choices of High School Seniors. 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Supreme Court Constrains Judges’ Power in Sentencing. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petley, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Mohr and Forsberg, 2002; Petley, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Mohr and Forsberg, 2002)
Three authors: (Xu et al., 2010)
Four or more authors: (Cardinale et al., 2006)

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