How to format your references using the Current Sexual Health Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Sexual Health Reports. 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

1. Harrison T. Anthropology. Apes among the tangled branches of human origins. Science. 2010;327:532–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Geisler JH, Theodor JM. Hippopotamus and whale phylogeny. Nature. 2009;458:E1-4; discussion E5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Huang S, Bai M, Wang L. General and facile surface functionalization of hydrophobic nanocrystals with poly(amino acid) for cell luminescence imaging. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2023.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Viteau M, Chotia A, Allegrini M, Bouloufa N, Dulieu O, Comparat D, et al. Optical pumping and vibrational cooling of molecules. Science. 2008;321:232–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Carver RH, Tai K-C. Modern Multithreading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Pallotta V, Soro A, Vargiu E, editors. Advances in Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Abler G, Ehlting M. Smart shopping in the European low cost flight market. In: Conrady R, Buck M, editors. Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 41–9.

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 Current Sexual Health Reports.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. US Astronaut Scott Kelly Breaks Record For Most Time In Space [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/us-astronaut-scott-kelly-breaks-record-most-time-space/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Tribal Internet Access: Increased Federal Coordination and Performance Measurement Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Apr. Report No.: GAO-16-504T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lamanna CA. The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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. St. John Kelly E. Almost Tudor Interior, but Ignoble Facade. New York Times. 1998 Apr 5;149.

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	Current Sexual Health Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Sex. Health Rep.
ISSN (print)	1548-3584
ISSN (online)	1548-3592
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Urology