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

Gershon, D. (2000). US Congress encouraged to lay out the welcome mat for skilled foreigners. Nature, 405(6786), 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teruel, M. N., & Meyer, T. (2002). Parallel single-cell monitoring of receptor-triggered membrane translocation of a calcium-sensing protein module. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5561), 1910–1912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khan, S. U. M., Al-Shahry, M., & Ingler, W. B., Jr. (2002). Efficient photochemical water splitting by a chemically modified n-TiO2. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590), 2243–2245.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hughes, W. O. H., Oldroyd, B. P., Beekman, M., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2008). Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5880), 1213–1216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Steele, D. (2011). From Therapist to Coach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Acchar, W. (2015). Ceramic Materials from Coffee Bagasse Ash Waste (E. J. V. Dultra, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Guveli, A., Ganzeboom, H. B. G., Platt, L., Nauck, B., Baykara-Krumme, H., Eroğlu, Ş., Bayrakdar, S., Sözeri, E. K., & Spierings, N. (2016). Migration and Return Migration. In H. B. G. Ganzeboom, L. Platt, B. Nauck, H. Baykara-Krumme, Ş. Eroğlu, S. Bayrakdar, E. K. Sözeri, & N. Spierings (Eds.), Intergenerational Consequences of Migration: Socio-economic, Family and Cultural Patterns of Stability and Change in Turkey and Europe (pp. 49–68). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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, E. (2014, June 20). Scientists Explore Strange ‘No-Man’s Land’ of Supercooled Water. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-explore-strange-‘no-man’s-land’-supercooled-water/

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. (1977). Need for a Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development Information (PAD-77-14). 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

Staal, J. (2017). The Relationships Among Sleep Quality, Frailty, and Falls in Older Adults Residing in the Community [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Feeney, K. (2010, October 24). Local, Fresh and in Season. New York Times, NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2000; Teruel & Meyer, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Teruel & Meyer, 2002)
Three authors: (Khan et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Hughes et al., 2008)

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