How to format your references using the Sex Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sex Education. 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	Download the output style file
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

Forrest, Lucy R. 2013. “Structural Biology. (Pseudo-)Symmetrical Transport.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6118): 399–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuwahara, Hiroyuki, and Xin Gao. 2013. “Stochastic Effects as a Force to Increase the Complexity of Signaling Networks.” Scientific Reports 3: 2297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagornova, Natalia S., Thomas R. Rizzo, and Oleg V. Boyarkin. 2012. “Interplay of Intra- and Intermolecular H-Bonding in a Progressively Solvated Macrocyclic Peptide.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6079): 320–323.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dunn, Michael, Angela Terrill, Ger Reesink, Robert A. Foley, and Stephen C. Levinson. 2005. “Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Ancient Language History.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5743): 2072–2075.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner, Kevin, and Miloš Doroslovački. 2013. Proportionate-Type Normalized Least Mean Square Algorithms. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

González-Ruibal, Alfredo, and Gabriel Moshenska, eds. 2015. Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence. Vol. 2. Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews, Ben, and Christopher Hopper. 2011. “Short-Time Existence.” In The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem, edited by Christopher Hopper, 83–95. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Sex Education.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “We Now Know Why The Dinosaurs Went Up In Smoke But Other Lifeforms Didn’t.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/now-know-dinosaurs-smoke-other-lifeforms-didnt/.

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. 2014. Public Transportation: Federal Role Key to Rural and Tribal Transit. GAO-14-589. Washington, DC: 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

Jo, Son Mi. 2009. “A Study of Korean Students’ Creativity in Science Using Structural Equation Modeling.” Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Barron, James. 2017. “Teaching Web-Savvy Students to Develop Fake-News Filters.” New York Times, March 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forrest 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Forrest 2013; Kuwahara and Gao 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kuwahara and Gao 2013)
Three authors: (Nagornova, Rizzo, and Boyarkin 2012)
4 or more authors: (Dunn et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sex Education
Abbreviation	Sex Educ.
ISSN (print)	1468-1811
ISSN (online)	1472-0825
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education