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

Althorpe SC. 2010. Chemistry. Setting the trap for reactive resonances. Science. 327(5972):1460–61

A journal article with 2 authors

Moyle LC, Nakazato T. 2010. Hybrid incompatibility “snowballs” between Solanum species. Science. 329(5998):1521–23

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominici F, Greenstone M, Sunstein CR. 2014. Science and regulation. Particulate matter matters. Science. 344(6181):257–59

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu Z, Wei W, Gagneur J, Perocchi F, Clauder-Münster S, et al. 2009. Bidirectional promoters generate pervasive transcription in yeast. Nature. 457(7232):1033–37

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lippold JC. 2015. Welding Metallurgy and Weldability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

An edited book

Sussman JL, Spadon P, eds. 2009. From Molecules to Medicines: Structure of Biological Macromolecules and Its Relevance in Combating New Diseases and Bioterrorism. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Mazurek K. 2015. Transformation of the Structure of the River Catchment Landscape Located in the Area of Intensive Coal Exploitation. In Landscape Analysis and Planning: Geographical Perspectives, eds. M Luc, U Somorowska, JB Szmańda, pp. 81–90. 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

Andrew E. 2015. There’s No Evidence Of Bubonic Plague Bacteria On NYC Subway. 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. 2011. Information Security: State Has Taken Steps to Implement a Continuous Monitoring Application, but Key Challenges Remain. GAO-11-149, 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

Culver MD. 2015. Assessing the influence of emotional intelligence on effective fire service leadership. 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

Kelly C. 2008. A Remodeling Gift to Remind Tarrytown of a Church’s History. New York Times, Jan. 13, , p. 14WE11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Althorpe 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Althorpe 2010; Moyle & Nakazato 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moyle & Nakazato 2010)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2009)

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