How to format your references using the Biology of Reproduction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biology of Reproduction. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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]
Maynard AD. Don’t define nanomaterials. Nature 2011; 475:31.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Nash JD, Moum JN. River plumes as a source of large-amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean. Nature 2005; 437:400–403.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Heuberger M, Zäch M, Spencer ND. Density fluctuations under confinement: when is a fluid not a fluid? Science 2001; 292:905–908.
A journal article with 13 or more authors
[1]
Ansari D, Andersson B, Ohlsson M, Höglund P, Andersson R, Nilsson J. CODUSA--customize optimal donor using simulated annealing in heart transplantation. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1922.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Dimond BC. Legal Aspects of Radiography and Radiology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.
An edited book
[1]
Kosowski A, Walukiewicz I (eds.). Fundamentals of Computation Theory: 20th International Symposium, FCT 2015, Gdańsk, Poland, August 17-19, 2015, Proceedings. vol. 9210. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Lei H, Karniadakis GE. Multiscale Modeling of Sickle Cell Anemia. In: Quarteroni A (ed.), Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015:119–156.

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 Biology of Reproduction.

Blog post
[1]
Fang J. New Solar Efficiency World Record Set; 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-set-new-solar-efficiency-world-record/. Accessed 30 October 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. [Comments on Fly America Act Interpretation]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Tabak S. Aspiring States at the International Court of Justice. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2015.

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]
Barry E, Kishkovsky S. For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending. New York Times 2011:A1.

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 titleBiology of Reproduction
AbbreviationBiol. Reprod.
ISSN (print)0006-3363
ISSN (online)1529-7268
ScopeCell Biology
General Medicine

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