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]

Fuks F. Journal club. A cancer biologist marvels at how key gene regulators are still revealing hidden talents. Nature 2010;466:417.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Panchanathan K, Boyd R. Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem. Nature 2004;432:499–502.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Suzuki N, Nishiura M, Wakatsuki Y. Isolation and structural characterization of 1-zirconacyclopent-3-yne, five-membered cyclic alkynes. Science 2002;295:660–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yoshioka W, Kawaguchi T, Fujisawa N, Aida-Yasuoka K, Shimizu T, Matsumura F, et al. Predominant role of cytosolic phospholipase A2α in dioxin-induced neonatal hydronephrosis in mice. Sci Rep 2014;4:4042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hobkirk JA, Gill DS, Jones SP, Hemmings KW, Bassi GS, O’Donnell AL, et al. Hypodontia. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Deville MO. Mathematical Modeling for Complex Fluids and Flows. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yamaguchi M, Miura T. Incremental Patterns in Text Search. In: Zavoral F, Jung JJ, Badica C, editors. Intelligent Distributed Computing VII: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 23–30.

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. Cities Are Making Spiders Bigger. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cities-are-making-spiders-bigger/ (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. The Army’s Battery Computer System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yackel RJ. Recruitment and retention of nurses in long -term care within the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

Walsh MW. A.I.G. Seeks Approval To File More Bank Suits. New York Times 2013:B1.

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