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]

Georghiou L. Europe’s research system must change. Nature 2008;452:935–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Heath RJ, Rock CO. A triclosan-resistant bacterial enzyme. Nature 2000;406:145–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meyers MA, McKittrick J, Chen P-Y. Structural biological materials: critical mechanics-materials connections. Science 2013;339:773–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fennimore AM, Yuzvinsky TD, Han W-Q, Fuhrer MS, Cumings J, Zettl A. Rotational actuators based on carbon nanotubes. Nature 2003;424:408–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Choi N-E, Han JH. How Flavor Works. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Fortis M. Italy’s Top Products in World Trade: The Fortis-Corradini Index. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gamalielsson J, Lundell B. On Involvement in Open Standards: How Do Organisations Contribute to W3C Standards Through Editorship? In: Crowston K, Hammouda I, Lundell B, Robles G, Gamalielsson J, Lindman J, editors. Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities: 12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30 - June 2, 2016, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 57–70.

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. On Eternal Life: Why An Anti-Ageing Pill Might Sour The Pleasures Of Existence. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eternal-life-why-anti-ageing-pill-might-sour-pleasures-existence/ (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. Contract With Education, Training, and Research Sciences Corporation for Processing Applications To Serve in the VISTA Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McNeil JN. “I noticed something wrong”: Lived experiences of women of color who faced a protracted journey to diagnosis with lupus. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2017.

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]

Kelly C. A Holiday Gift Guide To a Library of Books With Local Connections. New York Times 2013:A33B.

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