How to format your references using the Sexologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexologies. 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

Malakoff D. NUCLEAR SECURITY: Los Alamos Under Siege After Secrets Recovered. Science. 2000 Jun 23;288(5474):2109a–10a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee JY, Jameson SC. Immunology. Remembering to be tolerant. Science. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):667–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster CP, Jackson A, Watson RA. Competitive environments sustain costly altruism with negligible assortment of interactions. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 3;3:2836.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cohen HY, Miller C, Bitterman KJ, Wall NR, Hekking B, Kessler B, et al. Calorie restriction promotes mammalian cell survival by inducing the SIRT1 deacetylase. Science. 2004 Jul 16;305(5682):390–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith RA. Virgil. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Olsson EJ, Enqvist S, editors. Belief Revision meets Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science; vol. 21).

A chapter in an edited book

Sandau R. Calibration. In: Sandau R, editor. Digital Airborne Camera: Introduction and Technology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 261–72.

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 Sexologies.

Blog post

Andrews R. Mount St Helens Is Rumbling Again, So Should We Be Worried? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mount-st-helens-is-rumbling-again-so-should-we-be-worried/

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. Truck Safety: Implementation of the Single Driver’s License and Notification Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Feb. Report No.: RCED-89-30.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Janpengpen A. Monitoring and forecasting biosolids odors at prior lime and post lime addition in wastewater treatment plants [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Williams J. Beguiling Tales Of Women And Change. New York Times. 2017 Aug 2;C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malakoff 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Malakoff 2000; Lee and Jameson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Jameson 2012)
Three or more authors: (Cohen et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexologies
ISSN (print)	1158-1360
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Psychology (miscellaneous)