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

Stocking, M. A. (2003). Tropical soils and food security: the next 50 years. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5649), 1356–1359.

A journal article with 2 authors

Remondes, M., & Schuman, E. M. (2002). Direct cortical input modulates plasticity and spiking in CA1 pyramidal neurons. Nature, 416(6882), 736–740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fitch, J. P., Raber, E., & Imbro, D. R. (2003). Technology challenges in responding to biological or chemical attacks in the civilian sector. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5649), 1350–1354.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ni, K.-K., Ospelkaus, S., de Miranda, M. H. G., Pe’er, A., Neyenhuis, B., Zirbel, J. J., Kotochigova, S., Julienne, P. S., Jin, D. S., & Ye, J. (2008). A high phase-space-density gas of polar molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 231–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Siebert, G., & Maniatis, I. (2012). Tragende Bauteile aus Glas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ware, G. W., Albert, L. A., Voogt, P. de, Gerba, C. P., Hutzinger, O., Knaak, J. B., Mayer, F. L., Morgan, D. P., Park, D. L., Tjeerdema, R. S., Whitacre, D. M., Yang, R. S. H., & Gunther, F. A. (Eds.). (2006). Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews (Vol. 187). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Friedrich, P., & Piesch, C. (2007). Housing Markets and Policies in the Munich Metropolitan Area. In Å. E. Andersson, L. Pettersson, & U. Strömquist (Eds.), European Metropolitan Housing Markets (pp. 85–120). 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 Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 5). We’re Only Just Starting To Understand The Side-Effects Of Driverless Cars. 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. (2006). Commercial Space Launches: FAA Needs Continued Planning and Monitoring to Oversee the Safety of the Emerging Space Tourism Industry (GAO-07-16). 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

McCafferty, B. (2009). Chalk Talk [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Kanter, J. (2016, November 30). E.U. Plans Big Increase in Military Spending. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocking, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Remondes & Schuman, 2002; Stocking, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Remondes & Schuman, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ni et al., 2008)

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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