How to format your references using the Sex Roles citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sex Roles. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kentsis, A. (2006). Correspondence patterns: mechanisms and models of human dynamics. Nature, 441(7092), E5; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barbour, D. L., & Wang, X. (2003). Contrast tuning in auditory cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5609), 1073–1075.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dian, B. C., Clarkson, J. R., & Zwier, T. S. (2004). Direct measurement of energy thresholds to conformational isomerization in tryptamine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661), 1169–1173.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lin, Y., Gill, M. E., Koubova, J., & Page, D. C. (2008). Germ cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic factors govern meiotic initiation in mouse embryos. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5908), 1685–1687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fredriksson, H., & Åkerlind, U. (2012). Solidification and Crystallization Processing in Metals and Alloys. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Raghavan, N. R. S., & Cafeo, J. A. (Eds.). (2009). Product Research: The Art and Science Behind Successful Product Launches. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

de Amorim, R. C., & Fenner, T. (2012). Weighting Features for Partition around Medoids Using the Minkowski Metric. In J. Hollmén, F. Klawonn, & A. Tucker (Eds.), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XI: 11th International Symposium, IDA 2012, Helsinki, Finland, October 25-27, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 35–44). 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 Roles.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, November 29). Religious Experiences Activate Same Brain Pathways As Sex And Drugs. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/religious-experiences-activate-same-brain-pathways-sex-drugs/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2004). Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity (Supersedes AIMD-10.1.23) (No. GAO-04-394G). 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

Weitkunat, S. (2015). Facies and Log Analysis of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Foley, J., & Hay, G. (2010, July 20). New Potential for A.I.G. Deals. New York Times, p. B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kentsis 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Barbour and Wang 2003; Kentsis 2006).

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

Two authors: (Barbour and Wang 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sex Roles
Abbreviation	Sex Roles
ISSN (print)	0360-0025
ISSN (online)	1573-2762
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology Gender Studies