How to format your references using the Sex Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sex Education. 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 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

Mattmann, Chris A. 2013. “Computing: A Vision for Data Science.” Nature 493 (7433): 473–475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fortágh, József, and Claus Zimmermann. 2005. “PHYSICS: Toward Atom Chips.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5711): 860–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meindl, J. D., Q. Chen, and J. A. Davis. 2001. “Limits on Silicon Nanoelectronics for Terascale Integration.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5537): 2044–2049.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li, Zhen, Si-Si Deng, Yi Zang, Zhen Gu, Xiao-Peng He, Guo-Rong Chen, Kaixian Chen, Tony D. James, Jia Li, and Yi-Tao Long. 2013. “Capturing Intercellular Sugar-Mediated Ligand-Receptor Recognitions via a Simple yet Highly Biospecific Interfacial System.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adam, Craig. 2016. Forensic Evidence in Court. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Oja, Simo S., and Pirjo Saransaari, eds. 2006. Taurine 6. Vol. 583. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Dedov, Dmitry. 2014. “The Rule of Law and Legal State Doctrines as a Methodology of the Philosophy of Law.” In The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat), edited by James R. Silkenat, James E. Hickey Jr., and Peter D. Barenboim, 61–69. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. Cham: 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 Sex Education.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “One Researcher Has Been Mummifying Mice In Order To Study Cancer.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 19. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researcher-mummifying-mice-study-cancer/.

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. 2010. Telecommunications: The Proposed Performance Rights Act Would Result in Additional Costs for Broadcast Radio Stations and Additional Revenue for Record Companies, Musicians, and Performers. GAO-10-826. 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

Gruhl, Diana Krista. 2010. “Santa Rosa Adopt-A-Grandparent Plus Program: A Grant Proposal Project.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gorman, James. 2017. “A Deep Dive for Living Treasure.” New York Times, March 27, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mattmann 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Mattmann 2013; Fortágh and Zimmermann 2005).

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

Two authors: (Fortágh and Zimmermann 2005)
Three authors: (Meindl, Chen, and Davis 2001)
4 or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sex Education
Abbreviation	Sex Educ.
ISSN (print)	1468-1811
ISSN (online)	1472-0825
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education