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 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. Zarin DJ. Atmospheric science. Carbon from tropical deforestation. Science. 2012;336:1518–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Parish MM, Littlewood PB. Non-saturating magnetoresistance in heavily disordered semiconductors. Nature. 2003;426:162–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sherman DH, Tsukamoto S, Williams RM. ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. Comment on “Asymmetric syntheses of sceptrin and massadine and evidence for biosynthetic enantiodivergence.” Science. 2015;349:149.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Astafiev O, Inomata K, Niskanen AO, Yamamoto T, Pashkin YA, Nakamura Y, et al. Single artificial-atom lasing. Nature. 2007;449:588–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Saghyan AS, Langer P. Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

1. Kostianoy AG, Kosarev AN, editors. The Caspian Sea Environment. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Malanowski N. Matching Demand and Supply: Future Technologies for Active Ageing in Europe. In: Kohlbacher F, Herstatt C, editors. The Silver Market Phenomenon: Business Opportunities in an Era of Demographic Change. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 41–53.

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. Luntz S. Rings Discovered Around Minor Planet Chiron. 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. ADP Management: Status of the Army’s Logistics and Technical Information Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Oct. Report No.: IMTEC-89-10.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gonzaga Reed RR. The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 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. Kelly K, Rappeport A. Trump’s Tax Cut Could Lead to Broad Avoidance. New York Times. 2017 May 9;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 Medicine and Biology
Abbreviation	Reprod. Med. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1445-5781
ISSN (online)	1447-0578
Scope	Cell Biology Reproductive Medicine