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]

Gaskell CM. Close supermassive binary black holes. Nature 2010;463:E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cichon J, Gan W-B. Branch-specific dendritic Ca(2+) spikes cause persistent synaptic plasticity. Nature 2015;520:180–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Scholey JM, Brust-Mascher I, Mogilner A. Cell division. Nature 2003;422:746–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Quesenberry PJ, Dooner G, Dooner M, Abedi M. Developmental biology: Ignoratio elenchi: red herrings in stem cell research. Science 2005;308:1121–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zlokarnik M. Scale-up. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Popescu-Zeletin R, Rai IA, Jonas K, Villafiorita A, editors. E-Infrastuctures and E-Services for Developing Countries: Second International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, November 25-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 64. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Krishnamurthy KB, Morris GL, Sazgar M. Folic Acid Supplementation. In: Sazgar M, Harden CL, editors. Controversies in Caring for Women with Epilepsy: Sorting Through the Evidence, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 39–44.

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 D. Food Poisoning Expert Reveals 6 Things He Refuses To Eat. IFLScience 2016.

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak’s Progress in Improving Its Financial Condition Has Been Mixed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Born KB. Student and Principal Perceptions of the California High School Proficiency Examination in Community Schools: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral 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]

Ewing J, Goldman A, Tabuchi H. VW Executive’s Trip Let F.B.I. Pounce. New York Times 2017:B1.

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