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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexually Transmitted Infections. 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

Bohannon J. Artificial intelligence. The synthetic therapist. Science. 2015;349:250–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keeling PJ, Palmer JD. Parabasalian flagellates are ancient eukaryotes. Nature. 2000;405:635–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deana A, Celesnik H, Belasco JG. The bacterial enzyme RppH triggers messenger RNA degradation by 5’ pyrophosphate removal. Nature. 2008;451:355–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nowoshilow S, Schloissnig S, Fei J-F, et al. Author Correction: The axolotl genome and the evolution of key tissue formation regulators. Nature. 2018;559:E2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. Energy Materials 2014. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014.

An edited book

Rocha Á, Correia AM, Tan FB, et al., editors. New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertolo S. Information Overload and FP7 Funding Opportunities in 2009-10. In: Železný F, Lavrač N, eds. Inductive Logic Programming: 18th International Conference, ILP 2008 Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2008:5–5.

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 Infections.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Create Holograms that you can Touch. IFLScience. 2015. (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. Space Shuttle: Status of Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shore LA. The anima in animation: Miyazaki heroines and post-patriarchal consciousness. 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

Macfarlane I. ‘AN’ AND ‘H.’; II. New York Times. 1905;SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR535.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Infections
Abbreviation	Sex. Transm. Infect.
ISSN (print)	1368-4973
ISSN (online)	1472-3263
Scope	Dermatology Infectious Diseases