How to format your references using the American Sociological Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Sociological Review. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Bigot, Bernard. 2015. “Nuclear Physics: Pull Together for Fusion.” Nature 522(7555):149–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rikken, G. L., and E. Raupach. 2000. “Enantioselective Magnetochiral Photochemistry.” Nature 405(6789):932–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsiang, Solomon M., Kyle C. Meng, and Mark A. Cane. 2011. “Civil Conflicts Are Associated with the Global Climate.” Nature 476(7361):438–41.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Olesen, Claus, Martin Picard, Anne-Marie Lund Winther, Claus Gyrup, J. Preben Morth, Claus Oxvig, Jesper Vuust Møller, and Poul Nissen. 2007. “The Structural Basis of Calcium Transport by the Calcium Pump.” Nature 450(7172):1036–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stirling, Elspeth. 2010. Valuing Older People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Boutalis, Yiannis. 2014. System Identification and Adaptive Control: Theory and Applications of the Neurofuzzy and Fuzzy Cognitive Network Models. edited by D. Theodoridis, T. Kottas, and M. A. Christodoulou. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheli, Federico, and Giorgio Diana. 2015. “Introduction to the Finite Element Method.” Pp. 311–412 in Advanced Dynamics of Mechanical Systems, edited by G. Diana. 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 American Sociological Review.

Blog post

Carpineti, Chris. 2017. “New Study Reveals Zika Virus Was Circulating The Americas Before 2015’s Outbreak.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 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. 1999. Mass Transit: Use of Alternative Fuels in Transit Buses. RCED-00-18. 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

Byeon, Grace. 2014. “More than Words: A Comparative Study of Liszt’s Liebesträume and the Songs from Which They Were Transcribed.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Koblin, John. 2016. “That Padres Pitcher, She’s Got a Mean Screwball.” New York Times, September 16, AR118.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bigot 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bigot 2015; Rikken and Raupach 2000).

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

Two authors: (Rikken and Raupach 2000)
Three authors: (Hsiang, Meng, and Cane 2011)
4 or more authors: (Olesen et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Sociological Review
Abbreviation	Am. Sociol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0003-1224
Scope	Sociology and Political Science