How to format your references using the The Journal of Sexual Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Sexual Medicine. 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

[1]

May T. Isolation is not the answer. Nature 2004;429:603.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Butler A, Sandy M. Mechanistic considerations of halogenating enzymes. Nature 2009;460:848–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Qvarnström A, Brommer JE, Gustafsson L. Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild. Nature 2006;441:84–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Morel CM, Touré YT, Dobrokhotov B, Oduola AMJ. The mosquito genome--a breakthrough for public health. Science 2002;298:79.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pagliaro M. Nano-Age. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Oinas-Kukkonen H, Iivari N, Kuutti K, Öörni A, Rajanen M, editors. Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 6th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2015, Oulu, Finland, August 9-12, 2015, Proceedings. vol. 223. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tuschmann W. Collapsing and Almost Nonnegative Curvature. In: Bär C, Lohkamp J, Schwarz M, editors. Global Differential Geometry, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 93–106.

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 The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. New Strain Of “Super” Gonorrhea Could Be Resistant To All Antibiotics. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Traffic Congestion: The Need and Opportunity for Federal Involvement. 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

[1]

Ehigiator OJ. A Closed Loop Control System for Pressure and Flow Detection Using a Vibrating String Transducer. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

Antilla S. Gender Bias Case Against Sterling Jewelers Can Proceed. New York Times 2015:B8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	The Journal of Sexual Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Sex. Med.
ISSN (print)	1743-6095
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Reproductive Medicine Urology