How to format your references using the Reproductive Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reproductive Health. 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

1. Staveteig SE. Scientists and societies. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Nature. 2005;433:338.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. McInerney JO, O’Connell MJ. Evolutionary developmental biology: Ghost locus appears. Nature. 2014;514:570–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Collins SH, Wiggin MB, Sawicki GS. Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton. Nature. 2015;522:212–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Keppler F, Harper DB, Greule M, Ott U, Sattler T, Schöler HF, et al. Chloromethane release from carbonaceous meteorite affords new insight into Mars lander findings. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Norwitz ER, Belfort MA, Saade GR, Miller H. Obstetric Clinical Algorithms: Management and Evidence. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Bickhoff N. The Quintessence of Marketing: What You Really Need to Know to Manage Your Marketing Activities. Hollensen S, Opresnik M, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zubair M, Mughal MJ, Naqvi QA. Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Fractional Space. In: Mughal MJ, Naqvi QA, editors. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves in Fractional Dimensional Space. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 27–60.

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 Health.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Former NASA Engineer Plans To Plant 1 Billion Trees A Year Using Drones [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/drones-take-reforestation-new-heights/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Information Security: Progress Made, but Federal Aviation Administration Needs to Improve Controls over Air Traffic Control Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Aug. Report No.: GAO-05-712.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mills Campbell D. Exploratory Inquiry: Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Reduce Resource Dependence [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2017.

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

1. Koblin J. Departing Fox Executive May Be Heading to AMC. New York Times. 2017 Aug 30;B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Reproductive Health
Abbreviation	Reprod. Health
ISSN (online)	1742-4755
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine