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. Krupic J. Brain crystals. Science. 2015;350:47.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fortágh J, Zimmermann C. PHYSICS: Toward Atom Chips. Science. 2005;307:860–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Grinberg I, Cooper VR, Rappe AM. Relationship between local structure and phase transitions of a disordered solid solution. Nature. 2002;419:909–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Greaves SJ, Wrede E, Goldberg NT, Zhang J, Miller DJ, Zare RN. Vibrational excitation through tug-of-war inelastic collisions. Nature. 2008;454:88–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Yamarone R. The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Ginat DT, Freitag SK, editors. Post-treatment Imaging of the Orbit. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schnidman EA, MacMillan WD. Transparency: Data Meets Democracy. In: MacMillan WD, editor. How the Fed Moves Markets: Central Bank Analysis for the Modern Era. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 39–48.

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. Andrew E. Six Things You Can Do With Coffee – After You’ve Finished Drinking It [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/six-things-you-can-do-coffee-after-you-ve-finished-drinking-it/

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. Abstinence Education: Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Apr. Report No.: GAO-08-664T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schwarcz-Besson P. The Field in Psychoanalytic Research Methodology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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. Casselman B. The Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Maybe Big Business Is to Blame. New York Times. 2017 Sep 20;B1.

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

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