How to format your references using the Reproductive Medicine and Biology citation style

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

1. Stein RS. Geoscience. Tidal triggering caught in the act. Science. 2004;305:1248–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Houk KN, Cheong PH-Y. Computational prediction of small-molecule catalysts. Nature. 2008;455:309–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Li WKW, Harrison WG, Head EJH. Coherent sign switching in multiyear trends of microbial plankton. Science. 2006;311:1157–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hong Y, Stronach B, Perrimon N, Jan LY, Jan YN. Drosophila Stardust interacts with Crumbs to control polarity of epithelia but not neuroblasts. Nature. 2001;414:634–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Westermeier R. Electrophoresis in Practice. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

1. Kirchner M, Ghosal D, editors. Information Hiding: 14th International Conference, IH 2012, Berkeley, CA, USA, May 15-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fichter K, Beucker S. Managing Innovation Communities: Best Practice Reports. In: Fichter K, Beucker S, editors. Innovation Communities: Teamworking of Key Persons - A Success Factor in Radical Innovation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 227–67.

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 Medicine and Biology.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Cosmic Winds Shape Dust Clouds At Galactic Edge [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmic-winds-shape-dust-clouds-galactic-edge/

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. Comments on the Office of Personnel Management’s February 20, 2008 Report to Congress Regarding the Retirement Systems Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Mar. Report No.: GAO-08-576R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dorsey V. Impact of a family council intervention on owner knowledge and stewardship within a family business [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Feb 10;MM18.

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 Medicine and Biology
Abbreviation	Reprod. Med. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1445-5781
ISSN (online)	1447-0578
Scope	Cell Biology Reproductive Medicine