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. Paige DA. Ancient Mars: wet in many places. Science. 2005;307:1575–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hinchliffe P, Sazanov LA. Organization of iron-sulfur clusters in respiratory complex I. Science. 2005;309:771–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McNamara JM, Fawcett TW, Houston AI. An adaptive response to uncertainty generates positive and negative contrast effects. Science. 2013;340:1084–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lescroart F, Wang X, Lin X, Swedlund B, Gargouri S, Sànchez-Dànes A, et al. Defining the earliest step of cardiovascular lineage segregation by single-cell RNA-seq. Science. 2018;359:1177–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Biech E. 101 More Ways to Make Training Active. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Ismail SI, Sulaiman N, Adnan R, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology 2015 (ICoSSEET 2015). 1st ed. 2015. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Smith D, Friesen J. Interacting with Device Hardware and Media. In: Friesen J, editor. Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2014. p. 381–477.

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. Scientists Create Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam To Date [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-create-most-powerful-acoustic-tractor-beam-date/

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. Intellectual Property: Federal Enforcement Has Generally Increased, but Assessing Performance Could Strengthen Law Enforcement Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Mar. Report No.: GAO-08-157.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Munchel BF. Exploratory Study of Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Distance Clinical Supervision [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2015.

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. Brantley B. The Man Who Fell, Looking Well. New York Times. 2015 Dec 8;C1.

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

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