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

Wegener M. Materials science. Metamaterials beyond optics. Science. 2013 Nov 22;342(6161):939–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watson R, Pauly D. Systematic distortions in world fisheries catch trends. Nature. 2001 Nov 29;414(6863):534–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Templeton CN, Greene E, Davis K. Allometry of alarm calls: black-capped chickadees encode information about predator size. Science. 2005 Jun 24;308(5730):1934–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Whitman K, Starfield AM, Quadling HS, Packer C. Sustainable trophy hunting of African lions. Nature. 2004 Mar 11;428(6979):175–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radoine H. Architecture in Context. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Abbott LK, Murphy DV, editors. Soil Biological Fertility: A Key to Sustainable Land Use in Agriculture. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. XI, 264 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun W, Zhang M. The Rule of Man and the Rule of Law: The Safeguard of Law and Human Rights. In: Zhang M, editor. The “New Culture”: From a Modern Perspective. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 63–85.

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. Human Doctors Are Still Better Than Online Symptom Checkers. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Airline Competition: Issues Raised by Consolidation Proposals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Feb. Report No.: GAO-01-402T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rivas VE. Art appreciation program for homeless children: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Baker L. Spurring Urban Growth in Vancouver, One Family at a Time. New York Times. 2005 Dec 25;1111.

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