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

Jackson, S. T. (2015). Going where the science matters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6260), 594.

A journal article with 2 authors

Odegaard, J. I., & Chawla, A. (2013). Pleiotropic actions of insulin resistance and inflammation in metabolic homeostasis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6116), 172–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stunnenberg, H. G., Vermeulen, M., & Atlasi, Y. (2015). Developmental biology. A Me6Age for pluripotency. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6222), 614–615.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hashimoto, M., Nara, T., Hirawake, H., Morales, J., Enomoto, M., & Mikoshiba, K. (2014). Antisense oligonucleotides targeting parasite inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor inhibits mammalian host cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi. Scientific Reports, 4, 4231.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghez, R. (2005). A Primer of Diffusion Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Craiger, P., & Shenoi, S. (Eds.). (2007). Advances in Digital Forensics III: IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, National Centre for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, January 28-January 31, 2007 (1st ed., Vol. 242). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bonet, M. L., & Buss, S. (2012). An Improved Separation of Regular Resolution from Pool Resolution and Clause Learning. In A. Cimatti & R. Sebastiani (Eds.), Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2012: 15th International Conference, Trento, Italy, June 17-20, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 44–57). 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

Fang, J. (2015, November 12). Genome Of Inca Child Mummy Sequenced. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genome-500-year-old-inca-child-mummy-sequenced/

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. (2000). Internet: Federal Web-based Complaint Handling (AIMD-00-238R). 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

Chen, A. P. (2008). An efficient algorithm for calculating fluctuation field and simulating the thermal magnetic aftereffect [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Shpigel, B. (2015, August 15). The Undoing of a Quiet Jet. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jackson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jackson, 2015; Odegaard & Chawla, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Odegaard & Chawla, 2013)
Three authors: (Stunnenberg et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Hashimoto et al., 2014)

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