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

Dennell, Robin. 2011. “Archaeology. An Earlier Acheulian Arrival in South Asia.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 331 (6024): 1532–1533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, R. C., and I. A. Wilson. 2001. “Tech.Sight. Industrializing Structural Biology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5529): 519–520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, Zigang, Christina W. Hoven, and Allan Rosenfield. 2005. “Lessons from the Past.” Nature 433 (7026): 573–574.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vo, My-Nuong, Markus Terrey, Jeong Woong Lee, Bappaditya Roy, James J. Moresco, Litao Sun, Hongjun Fu, et al. 2018. “ANKRD16 Prevents Neuron Loss Caused by an Editing-Defective TRNA Synthetase.” Nature 557 (7706): 510–515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saksena, Franklin B. 2015. Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tan, Ying, Yuhui Shi, Fernando Buarque, Alexander Gelbukh, Swagatam Das, and Andries Engelbrecht, eds. 2015. Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence: 6th International Conference, ICSI 2015 Held in Conjunction with the Second BRICS Congress, CCI 2015, Beijing, June 25-28, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Vol. 9141. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Simons, Elwyn. 2008. “Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark.” In Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins, edited by John G. Fleagle and Christopher C. Gilbert, 35–40. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. New York, NY: 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. “Australian PM Bans Solar And Wind Power Investment.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australian-pm-bans-solar-and-wind-power-investment/.

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. 2013. Status of the Department of Education’s Inventory of Its Data Collections. GAO-13-596R. 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

Parhad, Ashutosh. 2015. “Energy Scavenging Using Piezoelectric Sensors to Power in Pavement Intelligent Vehicle Detection Systems.” 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

Poniewozik, James. 2016. “On Trump and Clinton, Letting the Chips Fall Where They May.” New York Times, September 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dennell 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dennell 2011; Stevens and Wilson 2001).

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

Two authors: (Stevens and Wilson 2001)
Three authors: (Dong, Hoven, and Rosenfield 2005)
4 or more authors: (Vo et al. 2018)

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