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

Herzberg C. Geochemistry. Food for a volcanic diet. Science 2007; 316(5823): 378-379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lane N, Martin W. The energetics of genome complexity. Nature 2010; 467(7318): 929-934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hejazi V, Sobolev K, Nosonovsky M. From superhydrophobicity to icephobicity: forces and interaction analysis. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2194.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Su C-Y, Luo D-G, Terakita A, et al. Parietal-eye phototransduction components and their potential evolutionary implications. Science 2006; 311(5767): 1617-1621.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisen PS, Raghuvanshi R. Emerging Epidemics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2013.

An edited book

Bonato A, Janssen J, eds. Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 9th International Workshop, WAW 2012, Halifax, NS, Canada, June 22-23, 2012. Proceedings. Vol 7323. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Loosemore R, Goertzel B. Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable. In: Eden AH, Moor JH, Søraker JH, Steinhart E, eds. Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. The Frontiers Collection. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012:83-98.

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. Giant, “Living Fossil” Fish Has A Vestigial Lung. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-living-fossil-fish-has-vestigial-lung/ [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. Space Funding: NASA and DOD Activities for Fiscal Years 1981 Through 1989. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jenkins AK. Satisfaction and organizational commitment of civilian engineers and scientists in United States naval acquisition. 2008.

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

Gant K. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. February 27, 2011:A3.

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