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

Ahlquist P. 2002. RNA-dependent RNA polymerases, viruses, and RNA silencing. Science. 296(5571):1270–73

A journal article with 2 authors

Tuomisto H, Ruokolainen K. 2012. Comment on “Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.” Science. 335(6076):1573; author reply 1573

A journal article with 3 authors

Bascompte J, Jordano P, Olesen JM. 2006. Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science. 312(5772):431–33

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kuo RC, Baxter GT, Thompson SH, Stricker SA, Patton C, et al. 2000. NO is necessary and sufficient for egg activation at fertilization. Nature. 406(6796):633–36

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lado EP. 2016. The Common Fisheries Policy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Almond RG. 2015. Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. New York, NY: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Kühn H, Karst F, Heydeck D. 2016. Catalytic Multiplicity of 15-Lipoxygenase-1 Orthologs (ALOX15) of Different Species. In Lipoxygenases in Inflammation, ed. D Steinhilber, pp. 47–82. 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 Annual Review of Sociology.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. 7,000-Year-Old Lost Egyptian City Found By Archaeologists. 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. 1991. Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development Efforts in Europe. NSIAD-91-194, 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

Learn DT. 2012. Differentiating instruction on the basis of cognitive tools: A case study of honors and mainstream middle school classes. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Capella University

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

Kishkovsky S. 2003. A Homecoming for Balanchine; City Ballet Shows St. Petersburg That a Master’s Art Is Still Alive. New York Times, Aug. 5, , p. E1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ahlquist 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ahlquist 2002; Tuomisto & Ruokolainen 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tuomisto & Ruokolainen 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kuo et al. 2000)

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