How to format your references using the Annual Review of Sociology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Sociology. 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

Linksvayer T. 2014. Evolutionary biology: Survival of the fittest group. Nature. 514(7522):308–9

A journal article with 2 authors

Rivera LB, Bergers G. 2015. CANCER. Tumor angiogenesis, from foe to friend. Science. 349(6249):694–95

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowman GD, O’Donnell M, Kuriyan J. 2004. Structural analysis of a eukaryotic sliding DNA clamp-clamp loader complex. Nature. 429(6993):724–30

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stoll S, Delon J, Brotz TM, Germain RN. 2002. Dynamic imaging of T cell-dendritic cell interactions in lymph nodes. Science. 296(5574):1873–76

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Middleton D. 2012. Non-Gaussian Statistical Communication Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gilmore WJ. 2006. Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional. Berkeley, CA: Apress

A chapter in an edited book

Heimer G, Rivlin M, Israel Z, Bergman H. 2006. Synchronizing activity of basal ganglia and pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease. In Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders, eds. P Riederer, H Reichmann, MBH Youdim, M Gerlach, pp. 17–20. Vienna: Springer

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 Annual Review of Sociology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2017. Climate Change Might Cost European Cities $40bn A Year By 2100. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1992. Automated Patent System: Information on PTO’s Program to Automate Patent Information and Processes. T-IMTEC-92-20, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bui L. 2017. Mind Over Matter Telepsychiatry. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Bohlen C. 2017. Ancient Georgian Culture, Set to Music. New York Times, June 20, , p. TR1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linksvayer 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Linksvayer 2014; Rivera & Bergers 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rivera & Bergers 2015)
Three or more authors: (Stoll et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Sociology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Sociol.
ISSN (print)	0360-0572
ISSN (online)	1545-2115
Scope	Sociology and Political Science