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

Davis, A. M. (2009). Astronomy. Early solar system chronology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5943), 951–952.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fu, H., & Cohen, R. E. (2000). Polarization rotation mechanism for ultrahigh electromechanical response in single-crystal piezoelectrics. Nature, 403(6767), 281–283.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, B., Wang, Q., & Tian, Y. (2013). Bulk modulus for polar covalent crystals. Scientific reports, 3, 3068.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chibotaru, L. F., Ceulemans, A., Bruyndoncx, V., & Moshchalkov, V. V. (2000). Symmetry-induced formation of antivortices in mesoscopic superconductors. Nature, 408(6814), 833–835.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halloran, M., & Thies, C. (2012). The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Attanasio, M., & Capursi, V. (Eds.). (2011). Statistical Methods for the Evaluation of University Systems. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Metzger, J. P., & Brancalion, P. H. S. (2016). Landscape Ecology and Restoration Processes. In M. A. Palmer, J. B. Zedler, & D. A. Falk (Eds.), Foundations of Restoration Ecology (pp. 90–120). Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

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

Luntz, S. (2017, June 12). Crowds Get Wiser When They Talk To Each Other. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/crowds-get-wiser-when-they-talk-to-each-other/. 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. (2000). Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements (No. GAO-01-41). 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

Branch, J. (2017). A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Dinardo, K. (2015, August 9). What Tim Cope Learned from the Nomads. New York Times, p. TR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davis 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Davis 2009; Fu and Cohen 2000).

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

Two authors: (Fu and Cohen 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chibotaru et al. 2000)

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