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

Graham-Rowe D. (2011). Agriculture: Beyond food versus fuel. Nature 474, S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baron C. L., and Malhotra V. (2002). Role of diacylglycerol in PKD recruitment to the TGN and protein transport to the plasma membrane. Science 295, 325–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Minamimoto T., Hori Y., and Kimura M. (2005). Complementary process to response bias in the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus. Science 308, 1798–1801.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mumby P. J., Chisholm J. R., Clark C. D., Hedley J. D., and Jaubert J. (2001). Spectrographic imaging. A bird’s-eye view of the health of coral reefs. Nature 413, 36.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Swatton P. J. (2010). ‘Principles of Flight for Pilots.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Yin Z., Pan L., and Fang X. (Eds) (2013). ‘Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 2013.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Fu W., Xiao N., and Lu X. (2007). QoS-Guaranteed Ring Replication Management with Strong Consistency. ‘Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management: APWeb/WAIM 2007 International Workshops: DBMAN 2007, WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007 and ASWAN 2007, Huang Shan, China, June 16-18, 2007. Proceedings’. (Eds KC-C Chang, W Wang, L Chen, CA Ellis, C-H Hsu, AC Tsoi and H Wang) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 37–49. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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

Andrew E. (2014). Study Reveals Discrimination Starts Before Grad School. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/study-reveals-discrimination-starts-grad-school/

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 (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: FAA Continues to Make Important Strides, But Vulnerabilities Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, T-AIMD-99-285. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Parisi J. (2012). Correlation of Conditional Admittance and Student Achievement in an Undergraduate Higher Education Setting. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Hollander S. (2000). Player’s Dream Takes a Detour in the Bronx. New York Times D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham-Rowe 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Baron and Malhotra 2002; Graham-Rowe 2011).

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

Two authors: (Baron and Malhotra 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mumby et al. 2001)

About the journal

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