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

Bohannon, J., 2009. The Gonzo Scientist. Do scientists like green porno? Science 325, 1620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Apesteguía, S., Novas, F.E., 2003. Large Cretaceous sphenodontian from Patagonia provides insight into lepidosaur evolution in Gondwana. Nature 425, 609–612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Andersson, J.O., Doolittle, W.F., Nesbø, C.L., 2001. Genomics. Are there bugs in our genome? Science 292, 1848–1850.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Oliver, K.M., Degnan, P.H., Hunter, M.S., Moran, N.A., 2009. Bacteriophages encode factors required for protection in a symbiotic mutualism. Science 325, 992–994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi, Z.-J., 2014. Homogeneous Catalysis for Unreactive Bond Activation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dong, Z., Yin, X.-M. (Eds.), 2009. Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research, Second Edition. ed. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Kőrösi, A., Székely, B., Máté, M., 2011. Modeling the Content Popularity Evolution in Video-on-Demand Systems, in: Szabó, R., Zhu, H., Imre, S., Chaparadza, R. (Eds.), Access Networks: 5th International ICST Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2010 and First ICST International Workshop on Autonomic Networking and Self-Management in Access Networks, SELFMAGICNETS 2010, Budapest, Hungary, November 3-5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47–61.

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

Andrew, D., 2015. Can You Solve Einstein’s Riddle? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2005. Air Traffic Operations: The Federal Aviation Administration Needs to Address Major Air Traffic Operating Cost Control Changes (No. GAO-05-724). 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

Magallanes, J., 2014. Experiences with formal and informal support: A case study of a female-to-male transgender individual (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2012. Looking for Cash, Congress Finds Some in a Corporate Pension Rule Tweak. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Apesteguía and Novas, 2003; Bohannon, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Apesteguía and Novas, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Oliver et al., 2009)

About the journal

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