How to format your references using the Sexologies citation style

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

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

A journal article with 2 authors

Chavis P, Westbrook G. Integrins mediate functional pre- and postsynaptic maturation at a hippocampal synapse. Nature 2001;411:317–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams JR, Dicarlo L, Marcus CM. Quantum Hall effect in a gate-controlled p-n junction of graphene. Science 2007;317:638–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van Groenigen JW, Lubbers IM, Vos HMJ, Brown GG, De Deyn GB, van Groenigen KJ. Earthworms increase plant production: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 2014;4:6365.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alexandrovna MI, Ionin BI, Tebby JC. Alkynes in Cycloadditions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Crowe J. PID Control: New Identification and Design Methods. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Castillo E, Fernández-Canteli A. Log-Weibull ε-N Model. In: Fernández-Canteli A, editor. A Unified Statistical Methodology for Modeling Fatigue Damage, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009, p. 113–25.

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 Sexologies.

Blog post

Hale T. The Second Case Of “Down’s Syndrome” In A Chimp Has Been Reported By Scientists. IFLScience 2017.

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. Freight Rail Pricing: Contracts Provide Shippers and Railroads Flexibility, but High Rates Concern Some Shippers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Orbinati AG. Spirituality and learning: An exploration into the understanding of spirituality in adult education. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2015.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Russian Art Sets Records in London. New York Times 2005:B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harrison, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Chavis and Westbrook, 2001; Harrison, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Chavis and Westbrook, 2001)
Three or more authors: (van Groenigen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexologies
ISSN (print)	1158-1360
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Psychology (miscellaneous)