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

Horby P. H7N9 is a virus worth worrying about. Nature. 2013 Apr 25;496(7446):399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Borgdorff AJ, Choquet D. Regulation of AMPA receptor lateral movements. Nature. 2002 Jun 6;417(6889):649–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaeberlein M, Rabinovitch PS, Martin GM. Healthy aging: The ultimate preventative medicine. Science. 2015 Dec 4;350(6265):1191–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim HS, Tan Y, Ma W, Merkurjev D, Destici E, Ma Q, et al. Pluripotency factors functionally premark cell-type-restricted enhancers in ES cells. Nature. 2018 Apr;556(7702):510–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamaguchi R, Fujita KI. Ligand Platforms in Homogenous Catalytic Reactions with Metals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Chemla K, editor. History of Science, History of Text. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. XXVIII, 266 p. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; vol. 238).

A chapter in an edited book

Summerville D, Skormin V, Volynkin A, Moronski J. Prevention of Information Attacks by Run-Time Detection of Self-replication in Computer Codes. In: Gorodetsky V, Kotenko I, Skormin V, editors. Computer Network Security: Third International Workshop on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2005, St Petersburg, Russia, September 24-28, 2005 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 54–75. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes 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. Newly-Discovered “Bat Frog” Named After Ozzy Osbourne. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Mar. Report No.: MWD-76-110.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thompson P. An exploratory study of work-related imagined interactions with real-life coworkers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

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

Kelly DA. Buy an ID Card and Forget About the Line. New York Times. 2006 Mar 19;56.

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