How to format your references using the Reproductive Health citation style

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

1. Hardt W-D. Journal club. An infection biologist points out an outstanding issue in mucosal immunology. Nature. 2009;459:893.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bennett CH, DiVincenzo DP. Quantum information and computation. Nature. 2000;404:247–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Baumgart T, Hess ST, Webb WW. Imaging coexisting fluid domains in biomembrane models coupling curvature and line tension. Nature. 2003;425:821–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yeo M, Lee S-K, Lee B, Ruiz EC, Pfaff SL, Gill GN. Small CTD phosphatases function in silencing neuronal gene expression. Science. 2005;307:596–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Evans PW. Top Hat. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. AbuZeina D. Cross-Word Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition. Elshafei M, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pfeffermann E. Imaging Proportional Counters. In: Trümper JE, Hasinger G, editors. The Universe in X-Rays. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 21–8.

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 Health.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. NASA Study Reveals How Mars Turned From A Habitable World Into A Dead Planet [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-atmosphere-study-reveals-how-it-turned-habitable-world-dead-planet0/. 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. Acquisition of Compact and Subcompact Passenger Vehicles To Conserve Fuel. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Mar. Report No.: 089569.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Meluzzi D. Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2013.

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. Grynbaum MM, Rogers K. Army-McCarthy Hearings. Anita Hill. Comey Testimony. New York Times. 2017 Jun 8;A17.

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 Health
Abbreviation	Reprod. Health
ISSN (online)	1742-4755
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine