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]

Huntress WT Jr. Planetary science. Human space exploration is about more than just science. Science 2003;301:771.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Burrows M, Sutton G. Interacting gears synchronize propulsive leg movements in a jumping insect. Science 2013;341:1254–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tischer T, Hörmanseder E, Mayer TU. The APC/C inhibitor XErp1/Emi2 is essential for Xenopus early embryonic divisions. Science 2012;338:520–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dinse HR, Ragert P, Pleger B, Schwenkreis P, Tegenthoff M. Pharmacological modulation of perceptual learning and associated cortical reorganization. Science 2003;301:91–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

French M, Szepesvári C, Rogers E. Performance of Nonlinear Approximate Adaptive Controllers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Abran A, Braungarten R, Dumke RR, Cuadrado-Gallego JJ, Brunekreef J, editors. Software Process and Product Measurement: International Conferences IWSM 2009 and Mensura 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 4-6, 2009. Proceedings. vol. 5891. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Oliveira JM, Carrapatoso EM. Evaluating the Adaptation of Multimedia Services Using a Constraints-Based Approach. In: Jiang X, Ma MY, Chen CW, editors. Mobile Multimedia Processing: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 70–88.

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]

Fang J. Plants Are “Biting” Back With The Same Mineral Found In Human Teeth. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-are-biting-back-same-mineral-found-human-teeth/ (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. Immigrant Education: Information on the Emergency Immigrant Education Act Program. 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]

O’Grady CR. Journeys of our ancestors: Conservation science approaches to the analysis of cultural material. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

Lohr S, Alderman L. The Fallout From a Global Cyberattack: ‘A Battle We’re Fighting Every Day.’ New York Times 2017:A9.

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