How to format your references using the Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine citation style

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

Duffy MA. Epidemiology. It helps to be well connected. Science. 2014;344(6189):1229-1230.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emery NJ, Clayton NS. The mentality of crows: convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes. Science. 2004;306(5703):1903-1907.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shiu RF, Chin WC, Lee CL. Carbonaceous particles reduce marine microgel formation. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5856.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR, Toporski JK. Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science. 2005;307(5717):1952-1955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parker JS, Anderson RL. Low-Energy Lunar Trajectory Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Privat M. Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Second Edition. (Warner R, ed.). Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Tamir DE, Shaked NT, Wilson PJ, Dolev S. Electro-Optical DSP of Tera Operations per Second and Beyond (Extended Abstract). In: Dolev S, Haist T, Oltean M, eds. Optical SuperComputing: First International Workshop, OSC 2008, Vienna, Austria, August 26, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2008:56-69.

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 Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. How The Neutrino Could Solve Great Cosmic Mysteries And Win Its Next Nobel Prize. IFLScience. October 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-neutrino-could-solve-great-cosmic-mysteries-and-win-its-next-nobel-prize/

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Financial and Operating Conditions Threaten Amtrak’s Long-Term Viability. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCafferty B. Chalk Talk. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

Otis J. Bypassing Stigma to Take Care of Herself and a Daughter Like Her. New York Times. December 26, 2016:A16.

In-text citations

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

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	Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Reprod. Health Med.
ISSN (print)	2214-420X
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