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]

Peto J. Cancer epidemiology in the last century and the next decade. Nature 2001;411:390–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Manukyan M, Singh PB. Epigenome rejuvenation: HP1β mobility as a measure of pluripotent and senescent chromatin ground states. Sci Rep 2014;4:4789.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Driscoll R, Hudson A, Jackson SP. Yeast Rtt109 promotes genome stability by acetylating histone H3 on lysine 56. Science 2007;315:649–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Grebmeier JM, Overland JE, Moore SE, Farley EV, Carmack EC, Cooper LW, et al. A major ecosystem shift in the northern Bering Sea. Science 2006;311:1461–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Montgomery GE, Schuch HC. GIS Data Conversion Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Koch H. Dispersive Equations and Nonlinear Waves: Generalized Korteweg–de Vries, Nonlinear Schrödinger, Wave and Schrödinger Maps. vol. 45. Basel: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Monnier P. Endoscopic Assessment of the Compromised Paediatric Airway. In: Monnier P, editor. Pediatric Airway Surgery: Management of Laryngotracheal Stenosis in Infants and Children, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 77–95.

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. Drug Could Rejuvenate Aging Brain And Muscle Tissue. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drug-could-rejuvenate-aging-brain-and-muscle-tissue/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. IRS ADP Contracts. 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

[1]

Dobson EC. Elizabeth C. Dobson Consulting and Design: A business plan for aging-in-place resources. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Greenhouse L. Justices Curb States’ Immunity From Suit. New York Times 2006:A16.

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