How to format your references using the The Journal of Sexual Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Sexual Medicine. 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

[1]

May M. Heart health. Nature 2013;493:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Korup O, Montgomery DR. Tibetan plateau river incision inhibited by glacial stabilization of the Tsangpo gorge. Nature 2008;455:786–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Boots M, Hudson PJ, Sasaki A. Large shifts in pathogen virulence relate to host population structure. Science 2004;303:842–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Keiling A, Wygant JR, Cattell CA, Mozer FS, Russell CT. The global morphology of wave Poynting flux: powering the aurora. Science 2003;299:383–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Merritt C. Process Steam Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Chen L, Han J, editors. Provable Security: 10th International Conference, ProvSec 2016, Nanjing, China, November 10-11, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 10005. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

King R, Mehrmann V, Nitsche W. Active Flow Control—A Mathematical Challenge. In: Grötschel M, Lucas K, Mehrmann V, editors. Production Factor Mathematics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 73–80.

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 The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. What Have We Got To Lose?: A Brief History of Mass Extinction Events. IFLScience 2013.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Early Child Care and Education: HHS and Education Are Taking Steps to Improve Workforce Data and Enhance Worker Quality. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ivy R. Regional Subsurface Investigation of the Uppermost Cretaceous of Northern Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation. 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

[1]

de la MERCED MJ. Tequila Maker Sold for Up to $1 Billion. New York Times 2017:B7.

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	The Journal of Sexual Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Sex. Med.
ISSN (print)	1743-6095
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine Urology