How to format your references using the Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction (APJR). 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 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

[1]

Marx J. ALZHEIMER’S CONGRESS: Drug Shows Promise for Advanced Disease. Science 2000;289(5478):375b–7b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Froemke RC, Dan Y. Spike-timing-dependent synaptic modification induced by natural spike trains. Nature 2002;416(6879):433–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kane Dickson V, Pedi L, Long SB. Structure and insights into the function of a Ca(2+)-activated Cl(-) channel. Nature 2014;516(7530):213–218.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lee PN, Callaerts P, De Couet HG, Martindale MQ. Cephalopod Hox genes and the origin of morphological novelties. Nature 2003;424(6952):1061–1065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moeller RR. Executive’s Guide to IT Governance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Benavot A, Braslavsky C, Truong N (eds.). School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jousselme A-L, Maupin P. An Evidential Pattern Matching Approach for Vehicle Identification. In: Denoeux T, Masson M-H, editors. Belief Functions: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Belief Functions, Compiègne, France 9-11 May 2012. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: 45–52.

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 Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. An Artificial Pancreas Has Just Made Giving Birth Safer For Diabetic Women. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-pancreas-has-just-made-giving-birth-safer-diabetic-women/ (accessed 30 Oct 2018).

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. Federal Research: Changes in Electricity-Related R&D Funding. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Thom RC. Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow’s Emergence in Cyberspace. 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]

Eligon J, Bosman J. Kansas Governor’s Tenure May Serve as a Warning for Conservatives. New York Times. 2017;:A12.

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	Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction
Abbreviation	Asian Pac. J. Reprod.
ISSN (print)	2305-0500
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Plant Science Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine General Veterinary