How to format your references using the Forum for Social Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forum for Social Economics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Grebe, M. (2005). Plant biology. Enhanced: growth by auxin: when a weed needs acid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5745), 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rai, A. K., & Cook-Deegan, R. (2013). Genetics. Moving beyond “isolated” gene patents. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6142), 137–138.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, C.-W., Ka, S.-M., & Chen, A. (2014). Robust image registration of biological microscopic images. Scientific Reports, 4, 6050.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, Z.-M., Wu, L.-A., Modugno, M., Yao, W., & Shao, B. (2013). Fault-tolerant almost exact state transmission. Scientific Reports, 3, 3128.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S. M. (2009). Controllership. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lioy, J., & Sobol, S. E. (Eds.). (2015). Disorders of the Neonatal Airway: Fundamentals for Practice. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz, D. D., Axelrad, M. E., & Hilliard, M. E. (2015). Interventions to Promote Adherence: Innovations in Behavior Change Strategies. In M. E. Axelrad (Ed.), Healthcare Partnerships for Pediatric Adherence: Promoting Collaborative Management for Pediatric Chronic Illness Care (pp. 51–62). 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 Forum for Social Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 22). Weight Loss Drug Made From War Chemicals Gets Deadly New Reach Online. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/weight-loss-drug-made-war-chemicals-gets-deadly-new-reach-online/

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). New Computer Was Not Needed for the St. Louis Computer Center (LCD-76-126). 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

Brown, C. P. (2010). Range vs. register: An important distinction in choral repertoire for the adolescent male [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2002, July 16). Russian Writer, Facing Charges, Warns Free Expression Is at Risk. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grebe, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Grebe, 2005; Rai & Cook-Deegan, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rai & Cook-Deegan, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Forum for Social Economics
Abbreviation	For. Soc. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0736-0932
ISSN (online)	1874-6381
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science