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

Le Quéré, Corinne. 2009. “Journal Club. An Oceanographer Marvels at the Good Timing of Shrimp.” Nature 461 (7267): 1031.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wan, Yisong Y., and Richard A. Flavell. 2007. “Regulatory T-Cell Functions Are Subverted and Converted Owing to Attenuated Foxp3 Expression.” Nature 445 (7129): 766–770.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, Cynthia Y., Marc Pypaert, and Graham Warren. 2005. “Golgi Duplication in Trypanosoma Brucei Requires Centrin2.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5751): 1196–1198.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hanson, R., V. V. Dobrovitski, A. E. Feiguin, O. Gywat, and D. D. Awschalom. 2008. “Coherent Dynamics of a Single Spin Interacting with an Adjustable Spin Bath.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5874): 352–355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Püschl, Wolfgang. 2012. Physik Des Segelns. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kroneck, Peter M. H., and Martha E. Sosa Torres, eds. 2014. The Metal-Driven Biogeochemistry of Gaseous Compounds in the Environment. Vol. 14. Metal Ions in Life Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrara, Pietro, Raphael Fuchs, and Uri Juhasz. 2012. “TVAL+ : TVLA and Value Analyses Together.” In Software Engineering and Formal Methods: 10th International Conference, SEFM 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 1-5, 2012. Proceedings, edited by George Eleftherakis, Mike Hinchey, and Mike Holcombe, 63–77. 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

Hale, Tom. 2015. “This Polar Bear Raided A BBC Film Crew’s Cabin.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bear-raided-bbc-film-crews-cabin-norway/.

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. 1997. DFAS Telecommunications: DFAS Has the Opportunity To Reduce Its Telecommunication Line Capacity. AIMD-97-100. 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

Stevens, Whitney. 2010. “Using Emotional Intelligence as a Leadership Strategy to Make Good Leaders Great.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Shear, Michael D., Mark Landler, and James Kanter. 2017. “Trump’s Message to Nato Is Pay Up, Not ‘All for One.’” New York Times, May 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Le Quéré 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Le Quéré 2009; Wan and Flavell 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wan and Flavell 2007)
Three authors: (He, Pypaert, and Warren 2005)
4 or more authors: (Hanson et al. 2008)

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