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]

Ganz T. Immunology. Versatile defensins. Science 2002;298:977–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Treseder KK, Holden SR. Ecology. Fungal carbon sequestration. Science 2013;339:1528–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pesaran B, Nelson MJ, Andersen RA. Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex. Nature 2008;453:406–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schwab SR, Pereira JP, Matloubian M, Xu Y, Huang Y, Cyster JG. Lymphocyte sequestration through S1P lyase inhibition and disruption of S1P gradients. Science 2005;309:1735–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lombard M. SolidWorks® Administration Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Salyapongse AN, Poore SO, Afifi AM, Bentz ML, editors. Extremity Replantation: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Karahan Ö, Çolak O. The Impact of Inflation Targeting Policy on the Inflation Uncertainty in Turkey. In: Karasavvoglou A, Polychronidou P, editors. Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Midst of the Global Economic Crisis, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2013, p. 49–61.

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]

Andrew E. Why is the Sky Blue and the Sun Yellow? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/why-sky-blue-and-sun-yellow-ls-currently-working/ (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. Major NIH Computer System: Poor Management Resulted in Unmet Scientists’ Needs and Wasted Millions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Karmacharya B. Population Dynamics of Northern Cardinal and Carolina Wren in an Urban Forest Fragment: Safe Refuge or Ecological Trap? Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

Sisario B. Dylan’s Tapes Find a Direction Home. New York Times 2016:C1.

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