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

Benford, G. (2008). Obituary: Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). Nature, 452(7187), 546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, P. M., & Jackson, D. D. (2011). Retrospective. Leon Knopoff (1925-2011). Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6023), 1400.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howell, K., White, J. G., & Hobert, O. (2015). Spatiotemporal control of a novel synaptic organizer molecule. Nature, 523(7558), 83–87.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Friedrich, R., Panizzi, P., Fuentes-Prior, P., Richter, K., Verhamme, I., Anderson, P. J., Kawabata, S.-I., Huber, R., Bode, W., & Bock, P. E. (2003). Staphylocoagulase is a prototype for the mechanism of cofactor-induced zymogen activation. Nature, 425(6957), 535–539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marks, K. H., Robbins, L. E., Fernández, G., Funkhouser, J. P., & Williams, D. L. (2009). The Handbook of Financing Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Guelfi, M. R., Masoni, M., Conti, A., & Gensini, G. F. (Eds.). (2011). E-learning in sanità: Progettare, produrre ed erogare corsi di formazione online per l’area sanitaria. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borst, J. G. G., & Rusu, S. I. (2012). The Calyx of Held Synapse. In L. O. Trussell, A. N. Popper, & R. R. Fay (Eds.), Synaptic Mechanisms in the Auditory System (pp. 95–134). 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 Forum for Social Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, October 22). Tiny Tags on Baby Sea Turtles Detail Elusive “Swimming Frenzy” Period. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-tags-baby-sea-turtles-detail-elusive-swimming-frenzy-period/

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. (2006). Weather Forecasting: National Weather Service Is Planning to Improve Service and Gain Efficiency, but Impacts of Potential Changes Are Not Yet Known (GAO-06-792). 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

Molina-Gutierrez, E. (2009). Keys to my home: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

McNAMARA, J. (2017, February 20). Swift Beyond Satire. New York Times, BR20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Benford, 2008; Davis & Jackson, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Davis & Jackson, 2011)
Three authors: (Howell et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Friedrich et al., 2003)

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