How to format your references using the Archives of Sexual Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Sexual Behavior. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Granting longevity. Nature, 430(7002), 947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haushofer, J., & Fehr, E. (2014). On the psychology of poverty. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6186), 862–867.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canestrelli, D., Bisconti, R., & Nascetti, G. (2014). Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications. Scientific reports, 4, 6516.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gierliński, M., Middleton, M., Ward, M., & Done, C. (2008). A periodicity of approximately 1 hour in X-ray emission from the active galaxy RE J1034+396. Nature, 455(7211), 369–371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bain, B. J., Wild, B. J., Stephens, A. D., & Phelan, L. A. (2010). Variant Haemoglobins. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Taguchi, T., Iwanaka, T., & Okamatsu, T. (Eds.). (2016). Operative General Surgery in Neonates and Infants. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Harwood, T. M., & L’Abate, L. (2010). Online Support Groups and Therapy. In L. L’Abate (Ed.), Self-Help in Mental Health: A Critical Review (pp. 79–99). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, June 16). UK Public Health Experts Call For Drug Use To Be Decriminalized. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/uk-public-health-experts-call-drug-use-decriminalized/. 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. (2013). Acquisition Workforce: DOT Lacks Data, Oversight, and Strategic Focus Needed to Address Significant Workforce Challenges (No. GAO-13-117). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Felder Derkacs, A. D. (2010). The role of desmin in the signaling response to mechanical stretch of skeletal muscle (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Qiu, L. (2017, February 23). Fact-Checking Assertions About the President’s Travel Ban. New York Times, p. A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Haushofer and Fehr 2014; Smaglik 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Haushofer and Fehr 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gierliński et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Sexual Behavior
Abbreviation	Arch. Sex. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0004-0002
ISSN (online)	1573-2800
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Psychology