How to format your references using the Sexually Transmitted Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gershon D. Microarray technology: an array of opportunities. Nature. 2002 Apr 25;416(6883):885–91.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lloyd-Jones GC, Ball LT. Catalysis. Self-control tames the coupling of reactive radicals. Science. 2014 Jul 25;345(6195):381–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiorillo CD, Tobler PN, Schultz W. Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons. Science. 2003 Mar 21;299(5614):1898–902.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yao H, Price TT, Cantelli G, Ngo B, Warner MJ, Olivere L, et al. Leukaemia hijacks a neural mechanism to invade the central nervous system. Nature. 2018 Aug;560(7716):55–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheringer M. Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2002.

An edited book

Granville A, Rudnick Z, editors. Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. XVI, 340 p. (NATO Science Series; vol. 237).

A chapter in an edited book

Traverso G, Demirel D, Buchmann J. State of the Art of Homomorphic Signature Schemes. In: Demirel D, Buchmann J, editors. Homomorphic Signature Schemes: A Survey. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 35–51. (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science).

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 Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew E. Concrete Jungle: Cities Adapt to Growing Ranks of Coyotes, Cougars and Other Urban Wildlife [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/concrete-jungle-cities-adapt-growing-ranks-coyotes-cougars-and-other-urban-wildlife/

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. Follow-up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: T-RCED-90-89.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Petrovic V. The K(n)-local E n-Adams Spectral Sequence and a Cohomological Approximation of its E2-term [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Wagner J. Cespedes Wanted to Stay. Mets Wanted Him to Stay. Done Deal. New York Times. 2016 Dec 1;B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Abbreviation	Sex. Transm. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0148-5717
ISSN (online)	1537-4521
Scope	Dermatology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health