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

Scholl, A. 2000. “ANTIFERROMAGNETISM: Taking a Very Close Look at Magnetic Structures.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 288 (5472): 1762–1763.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaffney, K. J., and H. N. Chapman. 2007. “Imaging Atomic Structure and Dynamics with Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5830): 1444–1448.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, Hao, Yongmao Pei, and Daining Fang. 2014. “Magnetic Field Tunable Small-Scale Mechanical Properties of Nickel Single Crystals Measured by Nanoindentation Technique.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4583.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bolotin, Kirill I., Fereshte Ghahari, Michael D. Shulman, Horst L. Stormer, and Philip Kim. 2009. “Observation of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene.” Nature 462 (7270): 196–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Straus, Sharon E., and David L. Sackett. 2013. Mentorship in Academic Medicine. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Reinkensmeyer, David J., and Volker Dietz, eds. 2016. Neurorehabilitation Technology. 2nd ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Boer, Theodore. 2010. “The Relation between Theology and Philosophy, A Story of Troubled Twins.” In Philosophy of Religion, edited by Guttorm Fløistad, 107–127. Dordrecht: 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 Sex Education.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2017. “China Scraps Coal Power Plants And Boosts Renewable Energy Investment.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-scraps-coal-power-plants-boosts-renewable-energy-investment/.

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. 1988. Civil Agency Aircraft: Agencies’ Use of Certain Aircraft to Transport Passengers. GGD-88-92BR. 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

Turpin-Padberg, Sarah. 2017. “Effects of Elementary Teacher Preparation and Support on Retention.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Gustines, George Gene. 2016. “Zombies Revived in a Walking Dead Digital Comic.” New York Times, April 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scholl 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Scholl 2000; Gaffney and Chapman 2007).

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

Two authors: (Gaffney and Chapman 2007)
Three authors: (Zhou, Pei, and Fang 2014)
4 or more authors: (Bolotin et al. 2009)

About the journal

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