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

Check E. Fresh analyses put rice genomics on the map. Nature 2002;420:259.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birchler JA, Kavi HH. Molecular biology. Slicing and dicing for small RNAs. Science 2008;320:1023–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mignot T, Merlie JP Jr, Zusman DR. Regulated pole-to-pole oscillations of a bacterial gliding motility protein. Science 2005;310:855–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Spehr M, Gisselmann G, Poplawski A, Riffell JA, Wetzel CH, Zimmer RK, et al. Identification of a testicular odorant receptor mediating human sperm chemotaxis. Science 2003;299:2054–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hornberger G, Wiberg P. Numerical Methods in the Hydrological Sciences. Washington D. C.: American Geophysical Union; 2005.

An edited book

Thomas M, editor. Inflammation in Parkinson’s Disease: Scientific and Clinical Aspects. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Cornely R, Grewal T, Gaus K. The Actin Cytoskeleton and Membrane Organisation in T Lymphocytes. In: Kavallaris M, editor. Cytoskeleton and Human Disease, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012, p. 103–21.

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

Luntz S. Exploding Stars Prove Gravity Constant Over The Last 9 Billion Years. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/exploding-stars-prove-gravity-constant-over-last-9-billion-years/ (accessed October 30, 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. International Space Station (ISS) - Ongoing Assessments for Life Extension Appear to be Supported. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Merkurjev D. Understanding Enhancer Role in Transcriptional Response. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2015.

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

Meier A, Musick K. Is the Family Dinner Overrated? New York Times 2012:SR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Birchler and Kavi, 2008; Check, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Birchler and Kavi, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Spehr et al., 2003)

About the journal

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