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

Grott M. Planetary science. Is Mars geodynamically dead? Science. 2008 May 30;320(5880):1171–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huxley A, Green AG. Physics. Electrons acquire a split personality in bismuth. Science. 2007 Sep 21;317(5845):1694–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsin JP, Sheth A, Manley JL. RNAP II CTD phosphorylated on threonine-4 is required for histone mRNA 3’ end processing. Science. 2011 Nov 4;334(6056):683–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vukovic N, Healy N, Suhailin FH, Mehta P, Day TD, Badding JV, et al. Ultrafast optical control using the Kerr nonlinearity in hydrogenated amorphous silicon microcylindrical resonators. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 7;3:2885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waine C. Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Gidron B, Bar M, editors. Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. VIII, 224 p. 5 illus. (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series).

A chapter in an edited book

Koivunen E. “Why Wasn’t I Notified?”: Information Security Incident Reporting Demystified. In: Aura T, Järvinen K, Nyberg K, editors. Information Security Technology for Applications: 15th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2010, Espoo, Finland, October 27-29, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 55–70. (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

Hale T. Scientists Want To Sequence The Genome Of Leonardo Da Vinci [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-want-sequence-genome-leonardo-da-vinci/

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. Transportation Disadvantaged: Progress in Implementing the New Freedom Program Has Been Limited, and Better Monitoring Procedures Would Help Ensure Program Funds Are Used as Intended. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jul. Report No.: GAO-07-999R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wright MW. The Louisiana Teacher Assault Pay Statute: An Analysis of Court Decisions Interpreting the Statute and a Comparative Study of Teacher Assault Pay Statutes in Other States [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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2016 Dec 7;MM38.

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