How to format your references using the Sexual Development citation style

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

Nies DH: Biochemistry. How cells control zinc homeostasis. Science 317:1695–1696 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Liemert A, Kienle A: Exact and efficient solution of the radiative transport equation for the semi-infinite medium. Sci Rep 3:2018 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Sato TK, Overduin M, Emr SD: Location, location, location: membrane targeting directed by PX domains. Science 294:1881–1885 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang W, Ma T, Zhang B, Yao N, Li M, Cui L, et al.: A novel mechanism of protein thermostability: a unique N-terminal domain confers heat resistance to Fe/Mn-SODs. Sci Rep 4:7284 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robertson B, Vignaux GA, Berger CEH: Interpreting Evidence. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK 2016).

An edited book

Buchberger B, Affenzeller M, Ferscha A, Haller M, Jebelean T, Klement EP, et al., editors: Hagenberg Research. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Das T, Chakraborty S: Bio-Microfluidics: Overview, in Chakraborty S (ed): Microfluidics and Microfabrication (Springer US, Boston, MA 2010), pp 131–179.

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 Development.

Blog post

Andrew E: Luck Is A Bigger Factor In Cancer Development Than Lifestyle Or Genetics [Internet]. IFLScience [cited 2018 Oct 30]; (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bad-luck-identified-biggest-cancer-risk/

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: Department of Education: Key Aspects of the Federal Direct Loan Program’s Cost Estimates. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2001).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jaramillo MA: Morphology of ferromagnetic thin films on nanosphere templates (2017).

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

Stewart JB: Case Study in Chaos: Management Experts Grade a Trump White House. New York Times :B1 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexual Development
Abbreviation	Sex Dev.
ISSN (print)	1661-5425
ISSN (online)	1661-5433
Scope	Developmental Biology Embryology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism