How to format your references using the Sexual Health citation style

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

Cresswell P. Cell biology. Cutting and pasting antigenic peptides. Science 2004; 304(5670): 525-527.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whitesides GM, Deutch J. Let’s get practical. Nature 2011; 469(7328): 21-22.

A journal article with 3 authors

Orihara Y, Kamogawa M, Nagao T. Preseismic changes of the level and temperature of confined groundwater related to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6907.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Montzka SA, Dutton GS, Yu P, et al. An unexpected and persistent increase in global emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11. Nature 2018; 557(7705): 413-417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray KA, Paschkewitz JJ. Next Generation HALT and HASS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Nies DH, Silver S, eds. Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals. Vol 6. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakravarty SR. An Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement via Fuzzy Sets. In: Lemmi A, Betti G, eds. Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006:49-72.

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 Health.

Blog post

Fang J. Ancient Spider-Like Predator Resurrected. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-spider-predator-resurrected/ [verified October 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

Government Accountability Office. Space Shuttle: NASA Faces Challenges in Its Attempt to Achieve Planned Flight Rates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Diaz Gonzalez AJ. High-Pressure Study of Bio-inspired Multi-Functional Nanocomposites Using Atomic Force Microscopy Methods. 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

Kenigsberg B. Paradise. New York Times. October 5, 2017:C7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Sexual Health
Abbreviation	Sex. Health
ISSN (print)	1448-5028
ISSN (online)	1449-8987
Scope	Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health