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. Brower V. Biomarkers: Portents of malignancy. Nature. 2011;471:S19-21.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Long F, Shi H. Simple and compact optode for real-time in-situ temperature detection in very small samples. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5009.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Finnegan NJ, Schumer R, Finnegan S. A signature of transience in bedrock river incision rates over timescales of 10(4)-10(7) years. Nature. 2014;505:391–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Brotherton CA, Naz S, Zaidi SS-E-A, Dennis AF, Hämäläinen A, Strielkowski W, et al. NextGen VOICES: A postdoc’s purpose. Science. 2018;360:26–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Banks D. An Introduction to Thermogeology: Ground Source Heating and Cooling. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

1. Cao F. A Theory of Shape Identification. Lisani J-L, Morel J-M, Musé P, Sur F, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kriz I, Pultr A. Integration II: Measurable Functions, Measure and the Techniques of Lebesgue Integration. In: Pultr A, editor. Introduction to Mathematical Analysis. Basel: Springer; 2013. p. 117–43.

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. Taub B. Dispersant May Have Actually Hindered Oil-Degrading Microbes During BP Spill Clean-Up. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Available in Many Schools; Actions Taken to Restrict Them Differ by State and Locality. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Apr. Report No.: GAO-04-673.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Goldner VR. Arizona nurses’ attitudes toward legislated minimum staffing ratios: Impact on the workplace [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2010.

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. Greenhouse L. Justices to Hear Exxon’s Challenge to Punitive Damages. New York Times. 2007 Oct 30;C5.

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