How to format your references using the Reproduction, Fertility and Development citation style

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

Grayson M. (2012). Physics masterclass. Nature 490, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanderschuren L. J. M. J., and Everitt B. J. (2004). Drug seeking becomes compulsive after prolonged cocaine self-administration. Science 305, 1017–1019.

A journal article with 3 authors

Asaadi N., Ribe N. M., and Sobouti F. (2011). Inferring nonlinear mantle rheology from the shape of the Hawaiian swell. Nature 473, 501–504.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wilbanks A. M., Fralish G. B., Kirby M. L., Barak L. S., Li Y.-X., and Caron M. G. (2004). Beta-arrestin 2 regulates zebrafish development through the hedgehog signaling pathway. Science 306, 2264–2267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan J.-F. (2014). ‘Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 3.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Roth-Berghofer T. R., Göker M. H., and Güvenir H. A. (Eds) (2006). ‘Advances in Case-Based Reasoning: 8th European Conference, ECCBR 2006 Fethiye, Turkey, September 4-7, 2006 Proceedings.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Klepac G. (2016). REFII Model and Fuzzy Logic as a Tool for Image Classification Based on Image Example. ‘Hybrid Soft Computing for Image Segmentation’. (Eds S Bhattacharyya, P Dutta, S De and G Klepac) pp. 87–108. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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, Fertility and Development.

Blog post

Hale T. (2017). Find Out How Much Big Pharma Drug Companies Are Paying Your Doctor. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/find-out-how-much-big-pharma-drug-companies-are-paying-your-doctor/

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 (2014). James Webb Space Telescope: Project Meeting Commitments but Current Technical, Cost, and Schedule Challenges Could Affect Continued Progress. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-14-72. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Satterlee R. T. (2009). A case study of undergraduate student employment at a private university: Exploring the effects of social class and institutional context. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Beard M. (2017). Lives in Ruins. New York Times BR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Vanderschuren and Everitt 2004; Grayson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Vanderschuren and Everitt 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wilbanks et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reproduction, Fertility and Development
ISSN (print)	1031-3613
ISSN (online)	1448-5990
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