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

Vedral, Vlatko. 2012. “Physics. Moving beyond Trust in Quantum Computing.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6066): 294–295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Short, Jeffrey, and Susan Murray. 2011. “A Frozen Hell.” Nature 472 (7342): 162–163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childs, Andrew M., David Gosset, and Zak Webb. 2013. “Universal Computation by Multiparticle Quantum Walk.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6121): 791–794.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zaller, Johann G., Florian Heigl, Liliane Ruess, and Andrea Grabmaier. 2014. “Glyphosate Herbicide Affects Belowground Interactions between Earthworms and Symbiotic Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Model Ecosystem.” Scientific Reports 4 (July): 5634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feyel, Philippe. 2013. Loop-Shaping Robust Control. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Priami, Corrado, Emanuela Merelli, Pablo Gonzalez, and Andrea Omicini, eds. 2005. Transactions on Computational Systems Biology III. Vol. 3737. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Li, and Soma Biswas. 2012. “Digital Curvatures Applied to 3D Object Analysis and Recognition: A Case Study.” In Combinatorial Image Analaysis: 15th International Workshop, IWCIA 2012, Austin, TX, USA, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, edited by Reneta P. Barneva, Valentin E. Brimkov, and Jake K. Aggarwal, 45–58. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Particle Physicists Spot Hints of Dark Matter.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/particle-physicists-spot-hints-dark-matter/.

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. 2002. Highway Financing: Factors Affecting Highway Trust Fund Revenues. GAO-02-667T. 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

Danna, Russell J. 2014. “Learning-Assisted Market-Based Optimization for Truck Task Scheduling.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Link, Kelly. 2015. “Subversive Pleasure.” New York Times, May 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vedral 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Vedral 2012; Short and Murray 2011).

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

Two authors: (Short and Murray 2011)
Three authors: (Childs, Gosset, and Webb 2013)
4 or more authors: (Zaller et al. 2014)

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