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

Guillén N. Infection biology: Nibbled to death. Nature 2014; 508(7497): 462-463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller J, Müller CW. Structural biology: Enzyme-chromatin complex visualized. Nature 2014; 514(7524): 572-573.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lineweaver CH, Fenner Y, Gibson BK. The galactic habitable zone and the age distribution of complex life in the Milky Way. Science 2004; 303(5654): 59-62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jungers WL, Harcourt-Smith WEH, Wunderlich RE, et al. The foot of Homo floresiensis. Nature 2009; 459(7243): 81-84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kissell J. Mac® Security Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Abrams JS, Bell RH, eds. Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Surgery: A Practical Approach to Management. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Brunner RD, Lynch AH. Reframing the Context. In: Lynch AH, ed. Adaptive Governance and Climate Change. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society; 2010:261-315.

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

Andrew D. Genes Are Not Destiny: Environment And Education Still Matter When It Comes To Intelligence. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/genes-are-not-destiny-environment-and-education-still-matter-when-it-comes-to-intelligence/ [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. NASA: Progress Made on Strategic Human Capital Management, but Future Program Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori HD. Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers. 2010.

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

de la MERCED MJ. Megamerger In Aerospace Draws Doubts. New York Times. September 5, 2017:B1.

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