How to format your references using the Sexual Health citation style

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

Clarke PR. Cell biology. A gradient signal orchestrates the mitotic spindle. Science 2005; 309(5739): 1334-1335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Breitkreutz A, Tyers M. Cell signaling. A sophisticated scaffold wields a new trick. Science 2006; 311(5762): 789-790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim C, Facchetti A, Marks TJ. Polymer gate dielectric surface viscoelasticity modulates pentacene transistor performance. Science 2007; 318(5847): 76-80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dettman JR, Sirjusingh C, Kohn LM, Anderson JB. Incipient speciation by divergent adaptation and antagonistic epistasis in yeast. Nature 2007; 447(7144): 585-588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferrant J-L, Gilson M, Jobert S, et al. Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588 in Telecoms. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Rajamannan NM, ed. Molecular Biology of Valvular Heart Disease. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Cena I, Alicandri-Ciufelli M, Gioacchini F. Epiphora and Indications to Surgery. In: Presutti L, Mattioli F, eds. Endoscopic Surgery of the Lacrimal Drainage System. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:45-52.

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 Health.

Blog post

Fang J. Spray-On Solar Power Turns Your Car Roof Into Photovoltaic Cells. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/spray-solar-power-turns-your-car-roof-photovoltaic-cells/ [verified October 2018].

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. Commercial Space Launches: FAA’s Risk Assessment Process Is Not Yet Updated. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hertzog L. Development and implementation of a prenatal postpartum depression education program for nurse practitioner students at California State University Long Beach. 2013.

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

Greenhouse L. Rights of Unions and Nonmembers Vie at Court. New York Times. January 11, 2007:A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexual Health
Abbreviation	Sex. Health
ISSN (print)	1448-5028
ISSN (online)	1449-8987
Scope	Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health