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. Metzger RA. The stars my incarnation. Nature. 2000;408:35.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Douglas T, Young M. Viruses: making friends with old foes. Science. 2006;312:873–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lin X, Hull CM, Heitman J. Sexual reproduction between partners of the same mating type in Cryptococcus neoformans. Nature. 2005;434:1017–21.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ousman SS, Tomooka BH, van Noort JM, Wawrousek EF, O’Connor KC, Hafler DA, et al. Protective and therapeutic role for alphaB-crystallin in autoimmune demyelination. Nature. 2007;448:474–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Morley D. Communications and Mobility. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Thiemann P, editor. Programming Languages and Systems: 25th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2–8, 2016, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2016. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sietsma JH, Wessels JGH. Apical Wall Biogenesis. In: Kües U, Fischer R, editors. Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 53–72.

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. Study Finds Common Food Additive Promotes Inflammatory Bowel Disease And Obesity [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-food-additive-promotes-inflammatory-bowel-disease-and-obesity-mice/

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. High Speed Ground Transportation: Strategic Approach Needed for Introduction of HSGT. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Apr. Report No.: T-RCED-93-35.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bell J. A phenomenological study of African American GS-13 to GS-15 managers within the federal government [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2015.

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. Feeney K. More Than Just a Deli. New York Times. 2010 Aug 22;NJ11.

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