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

Baughman RH. Retrospective. Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927-2007). Science. 2007 Mar 23;315(5819):1678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rai AK, Cook-Deegan R. Genetics. Moving beyond “isolated” gene patents. Science. 2013 Jul 12;341(6142):137–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor GK, Nudds RL, Thomas ALR. Flying and swimming animals cruise at a Strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency. Nature. 2003 Oct 16;425(6959):707–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Besemer J, Harant H, Wang S, Oberhauser B, Marquardt K, Foster CA, et al. Selective inhibition of cotranslational translocation of vascular cell adhesion molecule 1. Nature. 2005 Jul 14;436(7048):290–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jackson J. Political Oratory and Cartooning. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Cleophas TJ. Statistics Applied to Clinical Studies. 5th ed. 2012. Zwinderman AH, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Ding N, Gu D. Precise Time and Space Simulatable Zero-Knowledge. In: Boyen X, Chen X, editors. Provable Security: 5th International Conference, ProvSec 2011, Xi’an, China, October 16-18, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 16–33. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Fang J. Watch Huge Iceberg Suddenly Collapse [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-huge-iceberg-suddenly-collapse/

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. Review Of Reliability Of The Air Force Personnel Data System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1968 Jul. Report No.: B-164471.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Estrin EM. Individual Doubles: A Look at Twinship and Attachment Theory [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2012.

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

Leland J. Chess Tournament Kicks Off With V.I.P. Treatment. New York Times. 2016 Nov 12;A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baughman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Baughman 2007; Rai and Cook-Deegan 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rai and Cook-Deegan 2013)
Three or more authors: (Besemer et al. 2005)

About the journal

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