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. Lister AM. The role of behaviour in adaptive morphological evolution of African proboscideans. Nature. 2013;500:331–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Galitski V, Spielman IB. Spin-orbit coupling in quantum gases. Nature. 2013;494:49–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Truog RD, Kesselheim AS, Joffe S. Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Science. 2012;337:37–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhou J, Zhang H, Meng H, Zhu Y, Bao G, Zhang Y, et al. Discovery of a super-strong promoter enables efficient production of heterologous proteins in cyanobacteria. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4500.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rosplock K. The Complete Direct Investing Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Zimmer J, editor. Natural Killer Cells: At the Forefront of Modern Immunology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jackman AL, Jansen G, Ng M. Folate Receptor Targeted Thymidylate Synthase Inhibitors. In: Jackman AL, Leamon CP, editors. Targeted Drug Strategies for Cancer and Inflammation. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011. p. 93–117.

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. Luntz S. Researchers Confirm Those With Depression Experience “Fuzzy Thinking” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/fuzzy-thinking-while-depressed-confirmed/

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. Health Care Access: Programs for Underserved Populations Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Mar. Report No.: T-HEHS-00-81.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Buckowski M. A Wave of Navy Blue Churning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Vecsey G. The Highest Payroll, but Still Short a Run. New York Times. 2009 Oct 23;B10.

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

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