How to format your references using the Sexual and Relationship Therapy citation style

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

von Hobe, M. (2007). Atmospheric science. Revisiting ozone depletion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5858), 1878–1879.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, D., & Agha, L. (2015). Research funding. Big names or big ideas: do peer-review panels select the best science proposals? Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 434–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blair, A. C., Fisher, E. R., & Rickey, D. (2012). IBI* series winner. Discovering nanoscience. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1056–1057.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fiegna, F., Yu, Y.-T. N., Kadam, S. V., & Velicer, G. J. (2006). Evolution of an obligate social cheater to a superior cooperator. Nature, 441(7091), 310–314.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misra, S., & Goswami, S. (2017). Network Routing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wodarz, D. (Ed.). (2007). Killer Cell Dynamics: Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Immunology (Vol. 32). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Halper, J. (2014). Proteoglycans and Diseases of Soft Tissues. In J. Halper (Ed.), Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases (pp. 49–58). Springer Netherlands.

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 Sexual and Relationship Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 29). Turning Diamonds’ Defects Into Long-Term 3-D Data Storage. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1980). Better Management and More Resources Needed To Strengthen Federal Efforts To Improve Pregnancy Outcome (HRD-80-24). 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

Zhao, X. (2006). Exfoliation Corrosion Kinetics of High Strength Aluminum Alloys [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, February 12). Drama Students Face A Change of Scene. New York Times, 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (von Hobe, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Li & Agha, 2015; von Hobe, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Li & Agha, 2015)
Three authors: (Blair et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Fiegna et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexual and Relationship Therapy
Abbreviation	Sex. Relation. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1468-1994
ISSN (online)	1468-1749
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology