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

Butler D: Power to the people. Nature 430:928–929 (2004).

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung J, Bonini N: CREB-binding protein modulates repeat instability in a Drosophila model for polyQ disease. Science 315:1857–1859 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Burke MD, Berger EM, Schreiber SL: Generating diverse skeletons of small molecules combinatorially. Science 302:613–618 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang F, Wang Z, Dong W, Sun C, Wang H, Song A, et al.: Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis reveals mechanisms of embryo abortion during chrysanthemum cross breeding. Sci Rep 4:6536 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey JS, Fiore LB, Brion-Meisels S: Your Child’s Social and Emotional Well-Being. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK 2016).

An edited book

Delgado JMPQ: Hygrothermal Risk on Building Heritage: A Methodology for a Risk Map. (Springer International Publishing, Cham 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Kunche P, Reddy KVVS: Speech Enhancement Approach Based on Accelerated Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO), in Reddy KVVS (ed): Metaheuristic Applications to Speech Enhancement (Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016), pp 39–60.

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

Davis J: U.K. Is The Only G7 Country To INCREASE Fossil Fuel Subsidies [Internet]. IFLScience [cited 2018 Oct 30]; (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/uk-only-g7-country-increase-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

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: Need for Active Alcohol Public Education Program. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 1978).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meng W: Synthesis and design of microwave wideband filters and components (2014).

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

Kishkovsky S: Yuri Drozdov, 91, Top Spy For K.G.B. Who Planted Agents Around the Globe. New York Times :B14 (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