How to format your references using the Sexuality Research and Social Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 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

Dando, P. R. (2008). Obituary: Alan J. Southward (1928-2007). Nature, 451(7174), 28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fernandez, J. M., & Li, H. (2004). Force-clamp spectroscopy monitors the folding trajectory of a single protein. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1674–1678.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, J. A., Lagally, M. G., & Nuzzo, R. G. (2011). Synthesis, assembly and applications of semiconductor nanomembranes. Nature, 477(7362), 45–53.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lin, J.-F., Vankó, G., Jacobsen, S. D., Iota, V., Struzhkin, V. V., Prakapenka, V. B., et al. (2007). Spin transition zone in Earth’s lower mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5845), 1740–1743.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett, M. R., & Hacker, P. M. S. (2012). History of Cognitive Neuroscience. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Müller, A. H. E., & Borisov, O. (Eds.). (2011). Self Organized Nanostructures of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers II (Vol. 242). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hardie, R. C. (2014). Photosensitive TRPs. In B. Nilius & V. Flockerzi (Eds.), Mammalian Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Cation Channels: Volume II (pp. 795–826). 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 Sexuality Research and Social Policy.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, May 25). Math Problem “Stumping Internet” Is A Hoax, So Here Is The Real One. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/math-problem-stumping-internet-is-a-hoax-so-here-is-the-real-one/. Accessed 30 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. (1989). ADP Acquisition: Air Force Logistics System Modernization Projects (No. IMTEC-89-42). 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

Poudyal Kharel, A. (2015). Pyrolysis Studies of Copper and Copper Phosphate Mixtures on a Tungsten Surface (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, April 27). Supreme Court Hears Case Involving Lethal Injection. New York Times, p. A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dando 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dando 2008; Fernandez and Li 2004).

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

Two authors: (Fernandez and Li 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Abbreviation	Sex. Res. Social Policy
ISSN (print)	1868-9884
ISSN (online)	1553-6610
Scope	Health(social science) Sociology and Political Science Gender Studies