How to format your references using the Reproductive BioMedicine Online citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Brenner, S., 2014. Retrospective. Frederick Sanger (1918-2013). Science 343, 262.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stewart, J.R., Stringer, C.B., 2012. Human evolution out of Africa: the role of refugia and climate change. Science 335, 1317–1321.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naya, Y., Yoshida, M., Miyashita, Y., 2001. Backward spreading of memory-retrieval signal in the primate temporal cortex. Science 291, 661–664.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ma, D., Zerangue, N., Lin, Y.F., Collins, A., Yu, M., Jan, Y.N., Jan, L.Y., 2001. Role of ER export signals in controlling surface potassium channel numbers. Science 291, 316–319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pahl, J., 2016. Interference Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Spoor, M. (Ed.), 2005. Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical “Development” Reader. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

LaBoskey, V.K., 2009. “Name It and Claim It”: The Methodology of Self-Study as Social Justice Teacher Education, in: Fitzgerald, L., Heston, M., Tidwell, D. (Eds.), Research Methods for the Self-Study of Practice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 73–82.

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 Reproductive BioMedicine Online.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. “Earth As Art” Series Reveals The Beauty Of Our Planet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-art-series-shows-beauty-earths-landscapes/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1977. Curriculum Case Studies Are of Questionable Quality but Helped Precollege Curriculum Activities (No. HRD-77-46). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Labelle, D.A., 2012. Perceived barriers to recruitment and retention in rural healthcare sectors: A physical therapist narrative inquiry (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

Greenspan, D., 2017. It’s All in the Hands. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brenner, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brenner, 2014; Stewart and Stringer, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Stewart and Stringer, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Abbreviation	Reprod. Biomed. Online
ISSN (print)	1472-6483
Scope	Developmental Biology Reproductive Medicine