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

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

Jones, W. D. (2002). Synthetic chemistry. The key to successful organic synthesis is. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 289–290.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Z. L., & Song, J. (2006). Piezoelectric nanogenerators based on zinc oxide nanowire arrays. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5771), 242–246.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dasen, J. S., Liu, J.-P., & Jessell, T. M. (2003). Motor neuron columnar fate imposed by sequential phases of Hox-c activity. Nature, 425(6961), 926–933.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zamudio, K. R., Kellner, A., Serejo, C., de Britto, M. R., Castro, C. B., Buckup, P. A., Pires, D. O., Couri, M., Kury, A. B., Cardoso, I. A., Monné, M. L., Pombal, J., Jr, Patiu, C. M., Padula, V., Pimenta, A. D., Ventura, C. R. R., Hajdu, E., Zanol, J., Bruna, E. M., … Rocha, L. A. (2018). Lack of science support fails Brazil. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6409), 1322–1323.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schiesser, W. E. (2017). Spline Collocation Methods for Partial Differential Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Clark, P. E. (2010). Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration: Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum (M. L. Rilee, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gozdawa-Gołębiowski, R. (2013). Basic Dichotomies in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: A Case of Formulaic Language. In D. Gabryś-Barker, E. Piechurska-Kuciel, & J. Zybert (Eds.), Investigations in Teaching and Learning Languages: Studies in Honour of Hanna Komorowska (pp. 35–50). Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Sexual Aggression.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 16). New Horizons Brings Pluto’s Mysterious Moons Into Sharper Focus. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-brings-pluto-s-mysterious-moons-sharper-focus/

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. (2014). Financial Literacy: Overview of Federal Activities, Programs, and Challenges (GAO-14-556T). 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

Miller, D. B. (2009). Nurse educators’ leadership styles and nurse graduates’ licensure passage rates [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Barron, J. (2016, September 23). A Museum Rights Its Course as Its Flagship Returns. New York Times, C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jones, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jones, 2002; Wang & Song, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Song, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zamudio et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sexual Aggression
Abbreviation	J. Sex. Aggress.
ISSN (print)	1355-2600
ISSN (online)	1742-6545
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience