How to format your references using the Sexuality Research and Social Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 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

Segall, P. (2012). Geophysics. Understanding earthquakes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6082), 676–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

May, M., & Brody, H. (2015). Nature Index 2015 Global. Nature, 522(7556), S1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behnia, K., Balicas, L., & Kopelevich, Y. (2007). Signatures of electron fractionalization in ultraquantum bismuth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5845), 1729–1731.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jones, J. A., Vedral, V., V., Ekert, A., & Castagnoli, G. (2000). Geometric quantum computation using nuclear magnetic resonance. Nature, 403(6772), 869–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S. M. (2011). The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Deng, C., Ma, L., Lin, W., & Ngan, K. N. (Eds.). (2015). Visual Signal Quality Assessment: Quality of Experience (QoE). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Aguilar, M. I., & Demaerschalk, B. M. (2012). Stroke. In J. G. Burneo, B. M. Demaerschalk, & M. E. Jenkins (Eds.), Neurology: An Evidence-Based Approach (pp. 45–74). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Sexuality Research and Social Policy.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, August 27). Cockatoos Can Draw Conclusions Too. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cockatoos-can-draw-conclusions-too/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (2001). Medicare: Information Systems Modernization Needs Stronger Management and Support (No. GAO-01-824). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huger Marsh, D. P. (2012). Perspectives of disciplinary problems and practices in elementary schools (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Billard, M. (2010, July 29). Saves Those Stripes, Grab Some Scarves. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Segall 2012).
This sentence cites two references (May and Brody 2015; Segall 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (May and Brody 2015)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Abbreviation	Sex. Res. Social Policy
ISSN (print)	1868-9884
ISSN (online)	1553-6610
Scope	Health(social science) Sociology and Political Science Gender Studies