How to format your references using the Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 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. Carbillon L, Comment on “Maternal oxytocin triggers a transient inhibitory switch in GABA signaling in the fetal brain during delivery.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 2007, 317(5835):197; author reply 197.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rafii S, Lyden D, Cancer. A few to flip the angiogenic switch. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2008, 319(5860):163–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dick HJB, Lin J, Schouten H, An ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge. Nature, 2003, 426(6965):405–412.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Gandolfi B et al., A splice variant in KRT71 is associated with curly coat phenotype of Selkirk Rex cats. 2013 Epub.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Scheringer M, Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2002.

An edited book

1. White B, King I, Tsang P, editors, Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Holzer M, Kutrib M, Cellular Automata and the Quest for Nontrivial Artificial Self-Reproduction. In: Gheorghe M et al., editors. Membrane Computing: 11th International Conference, CMC 2010, Jena, Germany, August 24-27, 2010. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011: 19–36.

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 Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Blog post

1. Davis J, Sauropods’ Tooth-Like Backbones May Have Helped Them Grow Long Necks. IFLScience. February 28, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sauropods-toothlike-backbones-may-have-helped-them-grow-long-necks/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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, Rail Transportation: Federal Railroad Administration’s Safety Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Vento-Wilson M, The role of the speech-language pathologist and augmentative and alternative communication with acute care patients with severe communication impairments. 2012;

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. Billard M, A Brooklyn Life On the Big Screen. New York Times2013;E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,6–8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Abbreviation	Perspect. Sex. Reprod. Health
ISSN (print)	1538-6341
ISSN (online)	1931-2393
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sociology and Political Science