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

Chien, K. R. (2013). Regenerative biology: heartbroken embryos heal. Nature, 498(7455), 439–440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grant, P. R., & Grant, B. R. (2002). Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin’s finches. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5568), 707–711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hÿtch, M. J., Putaux, J.-L., & Pénisson, J.-M. (2003). Measurement of the displacement field of dislocations to 0.03 A by electron microscopy. Nature, 423(6937), 270–273.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Turner, J., King, J. C., Lachlan-Cope, T. A., & Jones, P. D. (2002). Recent temperature trends in the Antarctic. Nature, 418(6895), 291–292; discussion 292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark, M. (2006). Understanding Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yager, R. R., & Liu, L. (Eds.). (2008). Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions (Vol. 219). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dima, I. C., & Man, M. (2015). Simulation and Modelling: Econometric Technique. In M. Man (Ed.), Modelling and Simulation in Management: Econometric Models Used in the Management of Organizations (pp. 97–136). Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2016, June 30). Why Should Mammal Dads Care? 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. (1971). National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Acquisition and Utilization of T-38 Jet Aircraft (B-172171). 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

Miller, D. B. (2009). Nurse educators’ leadership styles and nurse graduates’ licensure passage rates [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly, R. (1993, October 3). Mortality Tale. New York Times, 711.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chien, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Chien, 2013; Grant & Grant, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Grant & Grant, 2002)
Three authors: (Hÿtch et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Turner et al., 2002)

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