How to format your references using the British Journal of Sociology of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Sociology of Education. 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

Gewin, Virginia. 2008. “The New Networking Nexus.” Nature 451 (7181): 1024–1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lybarger, Suzanne R., and Maria Sandkvist. 2004. “Microbiology. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Type IV Secretion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5674): 1122–1123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Gene-Wei, Eugene Oh, and Jonathan S. Weissman. 2012. “The Anti-Shine-Dalgarno Sequence Drives Translational Pausing and Codon Choice in Bacteria.” Nature 484 (7395): 538–541.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jin, Jianping, Xue Li, Steven P. Gygi, and J. Wade Harper. 2007. “Dual E1 Activation Systems for Ubiquitin Differentially Regulate E2 Enzyme Charging.” Nature 447 (7148): 1135–1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Somjit, Nutapong, Ian Robertson, and Mitchai Chongcheawchamnan. 2016. Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Design for Wireless Communications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fukuda, Toshio. 2012. Multi-Locomotion Robotic Systems: New Concepts of Bio-Inspired Robotics. Edited by Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Kosuke Sekiyama, and Tadayoshi Aoyama. Vol. 81. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferraro, Rafael. 2007. “Transformation of the Electromagnetic Field.” In Einstein’s Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity, edited by Rafael Ferraro, 117–134. New York, NY: 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 British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Blog post

Carpineti, Chris. 2017. “Watch The Moment A Baby Kangaroo Is Rescued From Dead Mother’s Pouch.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2006. Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation. GAO-06-831. 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

Olanisa, Eronmwon Linda. 2012. “Mental Health Issues and Use of Health Care Services among Older Immigrant Women in California.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Paulson, Michael. 2017. “‘Amélie’ Musical to End Its Run on Broadway.” New York Times, May 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2008; Lybarger and Sandkvist 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lybarger and Sandkvist 2004)
Three authors: (Li, Oh, and Weissman 2012)
4 or more authors: (Jin et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Sociology of Education
Abbreviation	Br. J. Sociol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0142-5692
ISSN (online)	1465-3346
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science