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

Chapman T. (2003). Scanning the surface. Nature 425, 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poliakoff M., and King P. (2001). Phenomenal fluids. Nature 412, 125.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bi X., Corpina R. A., and Goldberg J. (2002). Structure of the Sec23/24-Sar1 pre-budding complex of the COPII vesicle coat. Nature 419, 271–277.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stone M. D., Mihalusova M., O’connor C. M., Prathapam R., Collins K., and Zhuang X. (2007). Stepwise protein-mediated RNA folding directs assembly of telomerase ribonucleoprotein. Nature 446, 458–461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guinot V. (2010). ‘Wave Propagation in Fluids.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Odell J., Giorgini P., and Müller J. P. (Eds) (2005). ‘Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V: 5th International Workshop, AOSE 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004. Revised Selected Papers.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Wang Y., Abe S., Latham S., and Mora P. (2006). Implementation of Particle-scale Rotation in the 3-D Lattice Solid Model. ‘Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part I’. (Eds X-C Yin, P Mora, A Donnellan and M Matsu’ura) Pageoph Topical Volumes. pp. 1769–1785. (Birkhäuser: Basel)

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. (2016). Huge Ancient Hidden Monument Found In Petra Using Satellites, Drones, And Google Earth. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/huge-ancient-hidden-monument-found-in-petra-using-satellites-drones-and-google-earth/

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). Charter Schools: New Model for Public Schools Provides Opportunities and Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office, HEHS-95-42. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frederiksen M. D. (2013). Engaging physicians to support corporate compliance programs: A grounded theory study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Leland J. (2016). Grandmaster Flash Beats Back Time. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Poliakoff and King 2001; Chapman 2003).

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

Two authors: (Poliakoff and King 2001)
Three or more authors: (Stone et al. 2007)

About the journal

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