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

Steneck, R. S. (2006). Ecology. Staying connected in a turbulent world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5760), 480–481.

A journal article with 2 authors

Victor, D. G., & Leape, J. P. (2015). Global climate agreement: After the talks. Nature, 527(7579), 439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, J., Gao, X., & Galán, J. E. (2013). Structure and function of the Salmonella Typhi chimaeric A(2)B(5) typhoid toxin. Nature, 499(7458), 350–354.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Eggert, D., Naumann, M., Reimer, R., & Voigt, C. A. (2014). Nanoscale glucan polymer network causes pathogen resistance. Scientific Reports, 4, 4159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goria, S. (2017). Methods and Tools for Creative Competitive Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Giardi, M. T., Rea, G., & Berra, B. (Eds.). (2010). Bio-Farms for Nutraceuticals: Functional Food and Safety Control by Biosensors (Vol. 698). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, J., Ma, X., Hou, C., & Yao, Z. (2008). A Static Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithm for Arbitrary Directed Task Graphs in Uncertain Environments. In A. G. Bourgeois & S. Q. Zheng (Eds.), Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 8th International Conference, ICA3PP 2008, Cyprus, June 9-11, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 18–29). 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, October 27). We Have 15 Years To Halt Biodiversity Loss, Can It Be Done? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/we-have-15-years-halt-biodiversity-loss-can-it-be-done/

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. (1995). International Aviation: DOT Needs Better Data for Monitoring and Decisionmaking (T-RCED-95-240). 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

Wuite, J. (2006). Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Three East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Their Floating Ice Tongues [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, October 26). Following Amazon In the Hunt For a Home. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Steneck, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Steneck, 2006; Victor & Leape, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Victor & Leape, 2015)
Three authors: (Song et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Eggert et al., 2014)

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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