How to format your references using the Journal of Sexual Aggression citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sexual Aggression. 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

Perez, D. R. (2012). Public health and biosecurity. H5N1 debates: hung up on the wrong questions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6070), 799–801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fredrick, K., & Noller, H. F. (2003). Catalysis of ribosomal translocation by sparsomycin. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5622), 1159–1162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sato, T. K., Overduin, M., & Emr, S. D. (2001). Location, location, location: membrane targeting directed by PX domains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5548), 1881–1885.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Meyer, W. K., Jamison, J., Richter, R., Woods, S. E., Partha, R., Kowalczyk, A., Kronk, C., Chikina, M., Bonde, R. K., Crocker, D. E., Gaspard, J., Lanyon, J. M., Marsillach, J., Furlong, C. E., & Clark, N. L. (2018). Ancient convergent losses of Paraoxonase 1 yield potential risks for modern marine mammals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6402), 591–594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

ASAE. (2013). 7 Measures of Success. ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership.

An edited book

Boujemaa, N., Detyniecki, M., & Nürnberger, A. (Eds.). (2008). Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: Retrieval, User, and Semantics: 5th International Workshop, AMR 2007, Paris, France, July 5-6, 2007 Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 4918). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Davidsson, P., Ramstedt, L., & Törnquist, J. (2006). Inter-Organization Interoperability in Transport Chains Using Adapters Based on Open Source Freeware. In D. Konstantas, J.-P. Bourrières, M. Léonard, & N. Boudjlida (Eds.), Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications (pp. 35–42). Springer.

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 Journal of Sexual Aggression.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 29). Next Time You Ask The Doctor For Some Antibiotics – Consider Whether You’re Being Immoral. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/next-time-you-ask-the-doctor-for-some-antibiotics-consider-whether-youre-being-immoral/

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. (1985). Evidence Is Insufficient To Support the Administration’s Proposed Changes to AFDC Work Programs (HRD-85-92). 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

Briseno, A. R. (2015). Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Crow, K. (2003, April 13). Warm Feelings on Bleecker Street For a Rough-and-Tumble Life. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perez, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fredrick & Noller, 2003; Perez, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Fredrick & Noller, 2003)
Three authors: (Sato et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Meyer et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sexual Aggression
Abbreviation	J. Sex. Aggress.
ISSN (print)	1355-2600
ISSN (online)	1742-6545
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience