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. Brock JD. Chemistry. Watching atoms move. Science. 2007;315:609–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ardejani MS, Orner BP. Materials science. Obey the peptide assembly rules. Science. 2013;340:561–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kaiser SM, Malik HS, Emerman M. Restriction of an extinct retrovirus by the human TRIM5alpha antiviral protein. Science. 2007;316:1756–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sanvitto D, Pulizzi F, Shields AJ, Christianen PC, Holmes SN, Simmons MY, et al. Observation of charge transport by negatively charged excitons. Science. 2001;294:837–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chow S-C, Liu J-P. Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Gong M, Linqiang P, Tao S, Tang K, Zhang X, editors. Bio-Inspired Computing -- Theories and Applications: 10th International Conference, BIC-TA 2015 Hefei, China, September 25-28, 2015, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Naheedy JH, Mafee MF. Imaging Diagnosis of the Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma. In: Jeremic B, Pitz S, editors. Primary Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 39–53.

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. Andrew D. Can You Trust Your Ears? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/audio-illusions-can-you-trust-your-ears/

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. Information Technology: State Department Led Overseas Modernization Program Faces Management Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Nov. Report No.: GAO-02-41.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Caballero Suarez OL. Effects of ion correlations in high density plasmas: Neutrino scattering and transport properties in supernovae and neutron star crusts [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2008.

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. Kelly C. It’s Not Billions, But It Can Help Rescue an Artist. New York Times. 2012 Jun 3;BU1.

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