How to format your references using the Archives of Sexual Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Sexual Behavior. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Kasting, J. F. (2001). Earth history. The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5531), 819–820.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junge, W., & Nelson, N. (2005). Structural biology. Nature’s rotary electromotors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5722), 642–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jimenez-Sanchez, G., Childs, B., & Valle, D. (2001). Human disease genes. Nature, 409(6822), 853–855.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Spillane, C., Schmid, K. J., Laoueillé-Duprat, S., Pien, S., Escobar-Restrepo, J.-M., Baroux, C., et al. (2007). Positive darwinian selection at the imprinted MEDEA locus in plants. Nature, 448(7151), 349–352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, W.-Y. (2013). NeuroInvesting. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Seeling, P. (2007). Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation: A Comprehensive Overview and Guide on Video Traces and Their Utilization in Networking Research. (F. H. P. Fitzek & M. Reisslein, Eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Radmacher, M. (2008). A Procedure of How to Conduct Research in Transparent Mobile Recommendations. In M. Oya, R. Uda, & C. Yasunobu (Eds.), Towards Sustainable Society on Ubiquitous Networks: The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2008), September 24–16, 2008, Tokyo, Japan (pp. 49–60). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, June 29). Animals With Glowing Courtship Displays Are More Likely To Diversify. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/animals-with-glowing-courtship-displays-are-more-likely-to-diversify/. 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

Government Accountability Office. (2005). Telecommunications: GSA Has Made Progress Planning for a New Governmentwide Program, But Critical Issues Remain (No. GAO-05-361T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spratley, A. M. (2010). Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Williams, J. (2016, October 16). Waiting for the Mail. New York Times, p. BR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kasting 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Junge and Nelson 2005; Kasting 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Junge and Nelson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Spillane et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Sexual Behavior
Abbreviation	Arch. Sex. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0004-0002
ISSN (online)	1573-2800
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Psychology