How to format your references using the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. 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

Bussières, P. (2014). Estimating the number and size of phloem sieve plate pores using longitudinal views and geometric reconstruction. Scientific Reports, 4, 4929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rai, A. K., & Cook-Deegan, R. (2013). Genetics. Moving beyond “isolated” gene patents. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6142), 137–138.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nederbragt, A. J., van Loon, A. E., & Dictus, W. J. A. G. (2002). Evolutionary biology: hedgehog crosses the snail’s midline. Nature, 417(6891), 811–812.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ourjoumtsev, A., Jeong, H., Tualle-Brouri, R., & Grangier, P. (2007). Generation of optical “Schrödinger cats” from photon number states. Nature, 448(7155), 784–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yoder, C. H., Leber, P. A., & Thomsen, M. W. (2010). The Bridge to Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Iyer, K. M. (Ed.). (2013). Orthopedics of the Upper and Lower Limb. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Milojković-Opsenica, D., & Andrić, F. (2014). High Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography. In Inamuddin & A. Mohammad (Eds.), Green Chromatographic Techniques: Separation and Purification of Organic and Inorganic Analytes (pp. 81–101). Springer Netherlands.

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 Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, February 19). Do We Really Need Oxygen For Complex Life? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1993). Federal Research: Superconducting Super Collider’s Total Estimated Cost Will Exceed $11 Billion (T-RCED-93-57). 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

Wheatley, B. A. (2010). Leadership styles of healthcare executives: Comparisons of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant styles [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, July 6). Harkes Knows the Feeling of Having to Sit Out an Important Match. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bussières, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bussières, 2014; Rai & Cook-Deegan, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rai & Cook-Deegan, 2013)
Three authors: (Nederbragt et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Ourjoumtsev et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
Abbreviation	Psychol. Sex. Orientat. Gend. Divers.
ISSN (print)	2329-0382
ISSN (online)	2329-0390
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