How to format your references using the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Saltykov BG. Russian science: breaking up is hard to do. Nature. 2007 Oct 4;449(7162):536–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hezel DC, Russell SS. Comment on “ancient asteroids enriched in refractory inclusions.” Science. 2008 Nov 14;322(5904):1050; author reply 1050.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jasny B, Mueller K, Roberts L. HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS: Eastern Europe. Introduction. Science. 2010 Jul 9;329(5988):159.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sánchez-Luque FJ, Stich M, Manrubia S, Briones C, Berzal-Herranz A. Efficient HIV-1 inhibition by a 16 nt-long RNA aptamer designed by combining in vitro selection and in silico optimisation strategies. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 1;4:6242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spotte S. Tarpons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

McInnis B. HTML5 Game Programming with enchant.js. Shimizu R, Furukawa H, Fushimi R, Tanaka R, Kratzer K, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2013. XXI, 220 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kirchschlaeger PG. To What Extent Should the State Protect Human Beings from Themselves? In: Mathis K, Tor A, editors. Nudging - Possibilities, Limitations and Applications in European Law and Economics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 59–67.

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 American Journal of Reproductive Immunology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Astronomers Spot Mysterious Blob From The Ancient Universe. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-spot-mysterious-blob-from-the-ancient-universe/

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

Government Accountability Office. Federal Communications Commission: Provision for the Use of the 220-222 MHz Band by Private Land Mobile Radio Service and Final Rule. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: OGC-97-35.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramos CM. Is this working? A study on measuring the effectiveness of efforts to diversify the theatre management field [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Kenigsberg B. The King’s Choice. New York Times. 2017 Sep 21;C11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Reprod. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1046-7408
ISSN (online)	1600-0897
Scope	Immunology Obstetrics and Gynaecology