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. Fauci AS. Biodefence on the research agenda. Nature. 2003;421:787.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Elderfield H, Ganssen G. Past temperature and delta18O of surface ocean waters inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios. Nature. 2000;405:442–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mehlmann LM, Jones TLZ, Jaffe LA. Meiotic arrest in the mouse follicle maintained by a Gs protein in the oocyte. Science. 2002;297:1343–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kimura H, Goto J, Yasuda S, Sakurai S, Yumura M, Futaba DN, et al. The infinite possible growth ambients that support single-wall carbon nanotube forest growth. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3334.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lalanne C. Fatigue Damage. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Liu J. Selenoproteins and Mimics. Luo G, Mu Y, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Omar HA, Zhuang W. VeMAC Performance Evaluation for VANET Safety Applications. In: Zhuang W, editor. Time Division Multiple Access For Vehicular Communications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 39–58.

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. Fang J. Vibrating Magnets Help Male Bees Attract Females From Different Subspecies. 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. Unmanned Carrier-Based Aircraft System: Debate over System’s Role Led to Focus on Aerial Refueling. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Mar. Report No.: GAO-16-389R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Little JL. The effects of a financial literacy intervention on teachers’ financial literacy, awareness, and advocacy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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. LaFORGIA M, Eder S. That Neighbor Who Grouses? Now President. New York Times. 2017 May 6;A1.

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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