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. Willyard C. Tiny steps towards an HIV vaccine. Nature. 2010;466:S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Farina SC, Summers AP. Biomechanics: Boxed up and ready to go. Nature. 2015;517:274–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Li YC, Cheng TH, Gartenberg MR. Establishment of transcriptional silencing in the absence of DNA replication. Science. 2001;291:650–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sato Y, Kojima R, Okumura M, Hagiwara M, Masui S, Maegawa K-I, et al. Synergistic cooperation of PDI family members in peroxiredoxin 4-driven oxidative protein folding. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wong BP, Mittal A, Cao Y, Starr G. Nano-CMOS Circuit and Physical Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Miner ED. Planetary Ring Systems. Wessen RR, Cuzzi JN, editors. New York, NY: Praxis; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mengüç B. A Preliminary Analysis on the Cross-cultural Applicability of the Structural Model of Consumer Knowledge Assessment. In: Sidin S, Manrai AK, editors. Proceedings of the 1997 World Marketing Congress. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 12–3.

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 E. The Big Sleep: Science Is Waking Up To The Curious Story Of Narcolepsy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/big-sleep-science-waking-curious-story-narcolepsy/

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. Space Station: Russian-Built and Service Module Compliance With Safety Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Apr. Report No.: NSIAD-00-96R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pradhan SH. User Interface Design, Database Connectivity, and Security in Fortified Cards [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Glenn Hubbard R, Kane T. Republicans and Democrats Both Miscalculated. New York Times. 2013 Aug 12;A17.

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