How to format your references using the Current Sexual Health Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Sexual Health Reports. 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

1. Duffy TS. Earth science: probing the core’s light elements. Nature. 2011;479:480–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ruocco G, Fratalocchi A. Period doubling induced by thermal noise amplification in genetic circuits. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7088.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gregg MC, Sanford TB, Winkel DP. Reduced mixing from the breaking of internal waves in equatorial waters. Nature. 2003;422:513–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Karnik SK, Chen H, McLean GW, Heit JJ, Gu X, Zhang AY, et al. Menin controls growth of pancreatic beta-cells in pregnant mice and promotes gestational diabetes mellitus. Science. 2007;318:806–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Corrigan PW, Roe D, Tsang HWH. Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Holcman D. Stochastic Narrow Escape in Molecular and Cellular Biology: Analysis and Applications. Schuss Z, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Weissenbacher ER, Wirth M, Mylonas I, Geburtshilfe KF, Ledger WJ, Witkin SS. Immunology in Reproductive Medicine. In: Wirth M, Mylonas I, Geburtshilfe KF, Ledger WJ, Witkin SS, editors. Immunology of the Female Genital Tract. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 163–249.

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 Current Sexual Health Reports.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Neanderthal Babies Were Stocky, Just Like Their Parents [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/neanderthal-babies-were-stocky-just-their-parents/

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. Maritime Law Exemption: Exemption Provides Limited Competitive Advantage, but Barriers to Further Entry under U.S. Flag Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Feb. Report No.: GAO-04-421.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dzubaty DR. Understanding the undergraduate experience of the baccalaureate nursing student with English as an additional language [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2013.

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. Billard M. A Classic Shoe, Restyled. New York Times. 2010 Oct 28;E6.

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 title	Current Sexual Health Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Sex. Health Rep.
ISSN (print)	1548-3584
ISSN (online)	1548-3592
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Urology