Journal of Infertility and Reproductive Biology
ISSN: 2310-7588
The latest research in infertility and reproductive medicine from across the world
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| Article Title | Casing: Title case and bold |
| For title case, capitalize the first word of the title, the first word after a dash or colon in the title | |
| Example: | |
| Clinical and Demographic Patterns of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Patient | |
| Author | Placement: Below the article title |
| Casing: Title case and bold | |
| Example: Richard Parker | |
| Separator: Comma between each author, ‘and’ before the final author, and comma before the ‘and’ | |
| Example: Mohamed Daffalla Awadalla, Oliver Walters, Devisha Johri, and Zing Yang Hoo | |
| Abstract | Heading: Titled |
| Keywords | A minimum of 3 keywords should be provided (Mandatory) |
| Casing: Lower case; upper case only for proper nouns | |
| Example: Keywords: emergency medicine, internal medicine, palliative care, self-confidence, Kazakhstan, Dubai | |
| Headings | All numbered |
| First level: Title case and bold | |
| 1. Difference Between ABC and XYZ | |
| Emergency medicine specialty… | |
| Second level: Sentence case and bold | |
| 1.1. Difference between ABC and XYZ | |
| Emergency medicine specialty… | |
| Third level: Sentence case | |
| 1.1.1. Difference between ABC and XYZ | |
| Emergency medicine specialty… | |
| Follow US spelling – Use the ‘ize’ variant. This means that the words ending with ‘ise’, ‘isation’, etc. will be spelled with ‘z’ (e.g., ‘recognize’, ‘organize’, ‘civilize’, civilization, and reorganization etc.). | |
| Dictionary | Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com) |
| Abbreviations | Abbreviations should be defined upon the first instance in the text; the abbreviated form can be used thereafter. |
| Hyphenation | As per the dictionary |
| 700-800 million years (Use ‘to’ only when appearing with ‘from’; Use ‘and’ only when appearing with between). | |
| Example: aged between 20 and 40 years; from 40 to 50 people | |
| Commas | Use a comma after e.g. and i.e. in parentheses. However, in the main text, use ‘that is’ and ‘for example’, followed by a comma. |
| Serial commas should be used as per US style. | |
| Thousandth separator: Yes (4 digits and above) | |
| Example: 1,000 and 10,000 | |
| Italics | Used only for foreign words; for other terms, please follow the dictionary. |
| The caption is in sentence case and has a period at the end. | |
| Date Style | November 14, 2023 |
| Period: 2023–2024 (do not truncate) | |
| Twentieth century, but 1980s. However, remember to hyphenate if referring to an object, for example, nineteenth-century literature. | |
| Numbers | Numbers 1–9: Spelled out (one, two, three, etc.) |
| Numbers 10 and above: Numerals (10, 11, 12, etc.) | |
| For exact measurements, use only figures (34 km, 4%). | |
| Fractions: Spelled out in full in text (half, three-quarters, one-third), but written in digits in tables. | |
| Figures | Captions: Sentence case and put a period at the end. |
| Example: Figure 1. Interventions’ types and their impact on the quality of life and burden of informal caregivers of older adults. | |
| In-text citations should be spelled out in full, for example, Figure 1 and Figures 1 and 2. | |
| Tables | Use mg, kg, km, mL, g, etc |
| Example: Table 1. Statistical data of the antibiotics used in the younger group. | |
| In-text citations should be spelled out in full, for example, Table 1 and Tables 1 and 2. | |
| Measurement units | For decades, use spelled-out numbers such as one decade and two decades. For the century, write in numbers, 20th century. |
| Time units | Use the number in and out of parenthesis. |
| For example: 5 minutes of rest, (5 min of rest); 2 hours long journey, (2 hr long journey), for Seconds: sec | |
| Days, weeks, and months: Use the figures for days and months. | |
| For example: a 5-day course of antibiotics; a 10-month-old baby, a 2-year-old girl | |
| For decades, use spelled out numbers such as one decade, two decades. For century write in numbers, 20th century. | |
| Symbols | Percentage symbol: do not repeat % ranges such as 2–5% |
| Prefix | Prefixes should not be hyphenated such as nonjudgemental, postdoc, etc. |
| Hyphenate in case of intra-articular, anti-inflammatory etc. | |
| References | References should be styled as per the Vancouver style. |
| Author names given should be 6 authors, et al. (Example: Southern DA, Ngo J, Martin BJ, Galbraith PD, Knudtson ML, Ghali WA, et al. Characterizing types of readmissions after acute coronary syndrome hospitalization: Implications for quality reporting. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014;3(5):e001046.) | |
| – Reference citations must have space in between numbers, and be provided in sequence (e.g. [1, 2, 3, 4-6]). | |
| – In some papers, the in-text reference style is round brackets () but it should have been []. | |
| Declarations | If any (Acknowledgement, Funding, Conflicts of Interest, Data Availability Statement, Artificial Intelligence (AI)). |