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]

Savage N. Resources: Mine, all mine! Nature 2013;495:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kalinin SV, Spaldin NA. Materials science. Functional ion defects in transition metal oxides. Science 2013;341:858–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hong W, Mosca TJ, Luo L. Teneurins instruct synaptic partner matching in an olfactory map. Nature 2012;484:201–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Opferman JT, Iwasaki H, Ong CC, Suh H, Mizuno S-I, Akashi K, et al. Obligate role of anti-apoptotic MCL-1 in the survival of hematopoietic stem cells. Science 2005;307:1101–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lafontaine E, Comet M. Nanothermites. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Tjeerdema RS, editor. Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria for Selected Pesticides. vol. 216. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chizzolini B. National and Regional Econometric Models. In: Camagni R, Chizzolini B, Fratesi U, editors. Modelling Regional Scenarios for the Enlarged Europe: European Competiveness and Global Strategies, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 69–82.

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. In Defence Of Ecovillages: The Communities That Can Teach The World To Live Sustainably. IFLScience 2015.

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. Evaluation of Army’s Mobile Subscriber Equipment Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lama N. Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois 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]

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Restricts the Taxation of Income of Companies Based Out of State. New York Times 2008:C3.

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

Research and Writing Guides