How to format your references using the Sexual Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexual Medicine. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Rind D. The Sun’s role in climate variations. Science 2002;296:673–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Janssen M, Renn J. History: Einstein was no lone genius. Nature 2015;527:298–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mouchel CF, Osmont KS, Hardtke CS. BRX mediates feedback between brassinosteroid levels and auxin signalling in root growth. Nature 2006;443:458–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Drayna D, Manichaikul A, de Lange M, Snieder H, Spector T. Genetic correlates of musical pitch recognition in humans. Science 2001;291:1969–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Salleh S, Zomaya AY, Olariu S, Sanugi B. Numerical Simulations and Case Studies Using Visual C++.Net. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Salinelli E. Modelli Dinamici Discreti. vol. 71. 3a edizione. Milano: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Granjal J, Monteiro E, Silva JS. Security Issues and Approaches on Wireless M2M Systems. In: Khan S, Khan Pathan A-S, editors. Wireless Networks and Security: Issues, Challenges and Research Trends, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 133–64.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Astronauts Test Underwater Virtual Reality Technology From Microsoft. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronauts-test-underwater-virtual-reality-technology-microsoft/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Weather Satellites: Economies Available by Converging Government Meteorological Satellites. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Clayton-Clark C. Academic performance strategies implemented by successful California superintendents in low-performing school districts. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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

[1]

Slotnik DE. Kenny Sears, 83, Sharpshooting Forward for the Knicks. New York Times 2017:A28.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Medicine
Abbreviation	Sex. Med.
ISSN (print)	2050-1161
Scope	Dermatology Reproductive Medicine Urology Behavioral Neuroscience