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 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

Lagendijk, A. (2005). Pushing for power. Nature, 438(7067), 429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Longhi, S., & Della Valle, G. (2013). Floquet bound states in the continuum. Scientific reports, 3, 2219.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grandison, R. C., Piper, M. D. W., & Partridge, L. (2009). Amino-acid imbalance explains extension of lifespan by dietary restriction in Drosophila. Nature, 462(7276), 1061–1064.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gabriela, F.-V., Carlos, L.-F., José, D.-C. M., & Patricia, C. (2014). How much confidence can be conferred on tectonic maps of continental shelves? The Cantabrian-Fault case. Scientific reports, 4, 3661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anaya-Lara, O., Campos-Gaona, D., Moreno-Goytia, E., & Adam, G. (2014). Offshore Wind Energy Generation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ohno, S., Ohno, N., & Terada, N. (Eds.). (2016). In Vivo Cryotechnique in Biomedical Research and Application for Bioimaging of Living Animal Organs (1st ed. 2016.). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Bouhafs, F., Mackay, M., & Merabti, M. (2014). Home Energy Management Systems. In M. Mackay & M. Merabti (Eds.), Communication Challenges and Solutions in the Smart Grid (pp. 53–67). New York, NY: 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

Andrew, E. (2014, September 15). Rosetta Spacecraft Targets Comet Landing Site. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-spacecraft-targets-comet-landing-site/. 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. (1986). Education Block Grant: How Funds Reserved for State Efforts in California and Washington Are Used (No. HRD-86-94). 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

Kress, D. M. (2008). A phenomenological study exploring executive coaching: Understanding perceptions of self-awareness and leadership behavior changes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Chira, S. (2017, February 15). Mixed Signals on the Runways. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lagendijk 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lagendijk 2005; Longhi and Della Valle 2013).

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

Two authors: (Longhi and Della Valle 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gabriela et al. 2014)

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