How to format your references using the Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 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

Hawkins, Joel M. 2015. “Organic Chemistry: Streamlining Drug Synthesis.” Nature 520 (7547): 302–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leopold, Pierre, and Norbert Perrimon. 2007. “Drosophila and the Genetics of the Internal Milieu.” Nature 450 (7167): 186–188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayward, R. C., D. A. Saville, and I. A. Aksay. 2000. “Electrophoretic Assembly of Colloidal Crystals with Optically Tunable Micropatterns.” Nature 404 (6773): 56–59.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rothschild, Bruce M., Edward D. Mitchell, Michael J. Moore, and Greg A. Early. 2005. “What Causes Lesions in Sperm Whale Bones?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5722): 631c–632c.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Micouin, Patrice. 2014. Model-Based Systems Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, Guoliang. 2015. Analysis and Design of Singular Markovian Jump Systems. Edited by Qingling Zhang and Xinggang Yan. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Baradaran Hashemi, Homa, Azadeh Shakery, and Heshaam Faili. 2010. “Creating a Persian-English Comparable Corpus.” In Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation: International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, Padua, Italy, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters, Maarten de Rijke, and Alan Smeaton, 27–39. 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 Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Scientists Engineer Chickens With Dinosaur Snouts.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaur-chicken-and-back-again/.

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. 2007. Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Initial Consumer Education Efforts. GAO-07-1248T. 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

Reig, Maria Asela. 2008. “Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Murphy, Mary J. O. 2014. “Weary of War and Ready to Laugh.” New York Times, October 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hawkins 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hawkins 2015; Leopold and Perrimon 2007).

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

Two authors: (Leopold and Perrimon 2007)
Three authors: (Hayward, Saville, and Aksay 2000)
4 or more authors: (Rothschild et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
Abbreviation	Innovation (Abingdon)
ISSN (print)	1351-1610
ISSN (online)	1469-8412
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Geography, Planning and Development