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

Ferrini-Mundy, J. (2013). Science education. Driven by diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6130), 278.

A journal article with 2 authors

Broecker, W. S., & Hemming, S. (2001). Paleoclimate. Climate swings come into focus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5550), 2308–2309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morford, S. L., Houlton, B. Z., & Dahlgren, R. A. (2011). Increased forest ecosystem carbon and nitrogen storage from nitrogen rich bedrock. Nature, 477(7362), 78–81.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Chang, C. C., Nicholson, A. N., Rinaldi, E., Berkowitz, E., Garron, N., Brantley, D. A., Monge-Camacho, H., Monahan, C. J., Bouchard, C., Clark, M. A., Joó, B., Kurth, T., Orginos, K., Vranas, P., & Walker-Loud, A. (2018). A per-cent-level determination of the nucleon axial coupling from quantum chromodynamics. Nature, 558(7708), 91–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Papadimitriou, G. I., Tsimoulas, P. A., Obaidat, M. S., & Pomportsis, A. S. (2005). Multiwavelength Optical LANs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ketter, W., Poutré, H. L., Sadeh, N., Shehory, O., & Walsh, W. (Eds.). (2010). Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis: AAMAS Workshop, AMEC 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008, and AAAI Workshop, TADA 2008, Chicago, IL, USA, July 14, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 44). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stenhouse, M., & Patel, B. (2016). Irrigation and Disinfection. In B. Patel (Ed.), Endodontic Treatment, Retreatment, and Surgery: Mastering Clinical Practice (pp. 101–128). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, April 29). Loss of Y Chromosome Increases Risk for Cancer and Early Death. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/loss-y-chromosome-increases-risk-cancer-and-early-death/

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. (2009). Information Technology: Management and Oversight of Projects Totaling Billions of Dollars Need Attention (GAO-09-624T). 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

Martinez, W. (2010). “Straight Talk” on preventing HIV program—a grant thesis 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, March 6). Can’t Quit Mother Russia. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ferrini-Mundy, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Broecker & Hemming, 2001; Ferrini-Mundy, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Broecker & Hemming, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chang 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