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

Halzen, F. (2007). Neutrino astrophysics experiments beneath the sea and ice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5808), 66–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makse, H. A., & Kurchan, J. (2002). Testing the thermodynamic approach to granular matter with a numerical model of a decisive experiment. Nature, 415(6872), 614–617.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, X., Fauqué, B., & Behnia, K. (2015). SOLID-STATE PHYSICS. Scalable T² resistivity in a small single-component Fermi surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6251), 945–948.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Baldwin, M. P., Stephenson, D. B., Thompson, D. W. J., Dunkerton, T. J., Charlton, A. J., & O’Neill, A. (2003). Stratospheric memory and skill of extended-range weather forecasts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5633), 636–640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teodorescu, P., Stănescu, N.-D., & Pandrea, N. (2013). Numerical Analysis with Applications in Mechanics and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Langenhan, T., & Schöneberg, T. (Eds.). (2016). Adhesion G Protein-coupled Receptors: Molecular, Physiological and Pharmacological Principles in Health and Disease (Vol. 234). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, D. (2016). Resilience of Spatial Networks. In J. Lü, X. Yu, G. Chen, & W. Yu (Eds.), Complex Systems and Networks: Dynamics, Controls and Applications (pp. 79–106). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Hale, T. (2016, July 1). Two Of The World’s Rarest Tigers Have Been Born At London Zoo. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-of-the-worlds-rarest-tigers-have-been-born-at-london-zoo/. 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. (2001). Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects (No. GAO-01-985R). 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

Couch, H. C. (2017). Providers’ Acceptance of Smartphone Applications as a Supportive Strategy for Adolescent Asthma (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr. (2017, September 22). Rikers Guards Accused of Turning a Blind Eye to, or Even Enabling, Sex Assaults. New York Times, p. A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Halzen 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Halzen 2007; Makse and Kurchan 2002).

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

Two authors: (Makse and Kurchan 2002)
Three or more authors: (Baldwin et al. 2003)

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