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

Romanowicz, Barbara. 2008. “Using Seismic Waves to Image Earth’s Internal Structure.” Nature 451 (7176): 266–268.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, Xinli, and Jiuhong Xu. 2014. “Meta-Analysis of the Association between Dietary Lycopene Intake and Ovarian Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 4885.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Ent, F., L. A. Amos, and J. Löwe. 2001. “Prokaryotic Origin of the Actin Cytoskeleton.” Nature 413 (6851): 39–44.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Goyal, Sandeep K., Patricia E. Boukama-Dzoussi, Sibasish Ghosh, Filippus S. Roux, and Thomas Konrad. 2014. “Qudit-Teleportation for Photons with Linear Optics.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kissell, Joe. 2009. Mac® Security Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Romano, Silvia Daniela. 2011. Dielectric Spectroscopy in Biodiesel Production and Characterization. Edited by Patricio Aníbal Sorichetti. Green Energy and Technology. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Park, S. Lani, Daniel O. Stram, Mindy C. De Rouen, Scarlett Lin Gomez, Anna H. Wu, and Iona Cheng. 2016. “Lung Cancer Among Asian Americans.” In Cancer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans, edited by Anna H. Wu and Daniel O. Stram, 107–136. 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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “New State Of Matter Might Help With High-Temperature Superconductors.” 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. 1976. Information on the Requirement for Strategic Airlift. PSAD-76-148. 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

Marulkar, Sameer. 2016. “Indoor Object Localization System.” 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

Gustines, George Gene. 2016. “Marvel Shines a Spotlight on Women.” New York Times, July 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Romanowicz 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Romanowicz 2008; Li and Xu 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Xu 2014)
Three authors: (van den Ent, Amos, and Löwe 2001)
4 or more authors: (Goyal et al. 2014)

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