How to format your references using the Capitalism Nature Socialism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Capitalism Nature Socialism. 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

Abraham, Spencer. 2004. “Climate. The Bush Administration’s Approach to Climate Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5684): 616–617.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tan, Leo Wee Hin, and R. Subramaniam. 2002. “Education. Science and the Student Entrepreneur.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5598): 1556.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnes, Stewart E., Jun’ichi Ieda, and Sadamichi Maekawa. 2014. “Rashba Spin-Orbit Anisotropy and the Electric Field Control of Magnetism.” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4105.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

McKay, D., M. White, M. Pasienski, and B. DeMarco. 2008. “Phase-Slip-Induced Dissipation in an Atomic Bose-Hubbard System.” Nature 453 (7191): 76–79.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohos, Ferenc Á. 2017. Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ostrouch-Kamińska, Joanna, and Cristina C. Vieira, eds. 2015. Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults. Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Muhammad, Aminu, Nirmalie Wiratunga, and Robert Lothian. 2015. “Context-Aware Sentiment Analysis of Social Media.” In Advances in Social Media Analysis, edited by Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Mihaela Cocea, Nirmalie Wiratunga, and Ayse Goker, 87–104. Studies in Computational Intelligence. 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 Capitalism Nature Socialism.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2013. “New Species Of Scorpion Discovered.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-scorpion-discovered/.

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. 1978. The Federal Information Processing Standards Program: Many Potential Benefits, Little Progress, and Many Problems. FGMSD-78-23. 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

Gan, Kangfei. 2011. “A Parity-Violating Spin Rotation Measurement of Transversely Polarized Cold Neutrons Through a Liquid Helium Target.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Poniewozik, James. 2017. “Sex, Drugs and Archie.” New York Times, January 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abraham 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Abraham 2004; Tan and Subramaniam 2002).

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

Two authors: (Tan and Subramaniam 2002)
Three authors: (Barnes, Ieda, and Maekawa 2014)
4 or more authors: (McKay et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Capitalism Nature Socialism
Abbreviation	Capital. Nat. Social.
ISSN (print)	1045-5752
ISSN (online)	1548-3290
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations