How to format your references using the Sexual Development citation style

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

Lewis R: A career at the museum. Nature 451:218 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Moscou MJ, Bogdanove AJ: A simple cipher governs DNA recognition by TAL effectors. Science 326:1501 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng J-K, Philippe RN, Noel JP: The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science 336:1667–1670 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Garcia V, Bibes M, Bocher L, Valencia S, Kronast F, Crassous A, et al.: Ferroelectric control of spin polarization. Science 327:1106–1110 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Fleet PJ: Discrete Wavelet Transformations. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 2008).

An edited book

Brazil M: Optimal Interconnection Trees in the Plane: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. (Springer International Publishing, Cham 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Tololyan K: Armenian Diaspora, in Ember M, Ember CR, Skoggard I (eds): Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World (Springer US, Boston, MA 2005), pp 35–46.

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 Sexual Development.

Blog post

Andrew E: Squeaky Baby Sloths Are Completely Adorable [Internet]. IFLScience [cited 2018 Oct 30]; (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/squeaky-baby-sloths-are-completely-adorable/

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: Highway Safety: Effectiveness of State .08 Blood Alcohol Laws. (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 1999).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kane BH: A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization (2017).

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

Hodara S: Taking in the History of a City Shaped by the Sea. New York Times :CT10 (2014).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexual Development
Abbreviation	Sex Dev.
ISSN (print)	1661-5425
ISSN (online)	1661-5433
Scope	Developmental Biology Embryology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism