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

Sapienza C. Molecular biology. Do Watson and Crick motor from X to Z? Science 2007;315:46–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kincaid C, Griffiths RW. Laboratory models of the thermal evolution of the mantle during rollback subduction. Nature 2003;425:58–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Penmatsa A, Wang KH, Gouaux E. X-ray structure of dopamine transporter elucidates antidepressant mechanism. Nature 2013;503:85–90.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zarka P, Lamy L, Cecconi B, et al. Modulation of Saturn’s radio clock by solar wind speed. Nature 2007;450:265–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheremisinoff NP. Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014.

An edited book

Wilson EJ, Hair JF, editors. Proceedings of the 1996 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Cham: : Springer International Publishing 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Egeland CP, Domínguez-Rodrigo M, Barba R. Geological and paleoecological overview of Olduvai Gorge. In: Egido RB, Egeland CP, eds. Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites. Dordrecht: : Springer Netherlands 2007. 33–8.

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

Andrews R. Biotech Company Granted Ethical Permission To Attempt To Use Stem Cells To Reactivate The Brains Of The Dead. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/brain/biotech-company-use-stem-cells-reactivate-brains-dead/ (accessed 30 Oct 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. Proprietary Schools: Stronger Department of Education Oversight Needed to Help Ensure Only Eligible Students Receive Federal Student Aid. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kraka EK. Assessment of herbicides for control of non-native species: Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne spp. multiflorum ), tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis), and tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum). 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

Vecsey G. Back Home, Still Taking on the World. New York Times. 2013;:B8.

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

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