How to format your references using the Sexual Medicine Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexual Medicine Reviews. 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]

Stanley HE. Freezing by heating. Nature 2000;404:718–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Digicaylioglu M, Lipton SA. Erythropoietin-mediated neuroprotection involves cross-talk between Jak2 and NF-kappaB signalling cascades. Nature 2001;412:641–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shultz S, Opie C, Atkinson QD. Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates. Nature 2011;479:219–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Guerin E, Cambray G, Sanchez-Alberola N, Campoy S, Erill I, Da Re S, et al. The SOS response controls integron recombination. Science 2009;324:1034.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Meschede D. Optics, Light, and Lasers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Kotsis G, Spaniol O, editors. Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: First International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 7-9, 2004. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 3427. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Penumetcha K, Jerjes W, Patel N, Upile T. ENT Emergencies. In: Shergill I, Arya M, Upile T, Arya N, Dasgupta P, editors. Surgical Emergencies in Clinical Practice, London: Springer; 2013, p. 73–98.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Scientists Have Figured Out Why Your Eyes Move When You Sleep. 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. Use of Department of Education Title III Grant Funds by the International Institute of the Americas of World University. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Schaff S. What characterizes and impacts student transformational learning in a community college work placement context. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2013.

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]

Qiu L. Women and the Draft. New York Times 2017:A13.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Sex. Med. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2050-0521
Scope	Dermatology Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine Urology