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]

Kaiser J. PLANT GENETICS:From Genome to Functional Genomics. Science 2000;288:1715a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sachs JP, Anderson RF. Increased productivity in the subantarctic ocean during Heinrich events. Nature 2005;434:1118–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Innes C, Anand M, Bauch CT. The impact of human-environment interactions on the stability of forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems. Sci Rep 2013;3:2689.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang X, Kellner AWA, Jiang S, Cheng X, Wang Q, Ma Y, et al. Egg accumulation with 3D embryos provides insight into the life history of a pterosaur. Science 2017;358:1197–201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Millon T, Grossman S. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Haller A, Huang G, Huang Z, Paik H-Y, Sheng QZ, editors. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops: Combined WISE 2011 and WISE 2012 Workshops, Sydney Australia, October 12-14, 2011 and Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 7652. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Balks MR, Zabowski D. Soils of Grasslands and Rangelands. In: Zabowski D, editor. Celebrating Soil: Discovering Soils and Landscapes, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 95–118.

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. A Dark Night Is Good For Your Health. 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. Transition From School to Work: H.R. 2884 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moris FA. International Trade in Research and Development Services and the Activity of MNC Subsidiaries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Urbina I. Video Captures 4 Murders, but Killers Go Unpunished. New York Times 2015:A1.

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