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

Boyd, Philip. 2004. “Ocean Science. Ironing out Algal Issues in the Southern Ocean.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5669): 396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bringmann, Henrik, and Anthony A. Hyman. 2005. “A Cytokinesis Furrow Is Positioned by Two Consecutive Signals.” Nature 436 (7051): 731–734.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giustino, Feliciano, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie. 2008. “Small Phonon Contribution to the Photoemission Kink in the Copper Oxide Superconductors.” Nature 452 (7190): 975–978.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Matsui, Yoshiki, Koichiro Seki, Akihide Hibara, and Teruyasu Mizoguchi. 2013. “An Estimation of Molecular Dynamic Behaviour in a Liquid Using Core-Loss Spectroscopy.” Scientific Reports 3 (December): 3503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Çayirci, Erdal, and Chunming Rong. 2009. Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Simeonov, Lubomir, and Vardan Sargsyan, eds. 2008. Soil Chemical Pollution, Risk Assessment, Remediation and Security. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cawley, Oisín, Xiaofeng Wang, and Ita Richardson. 2010. “Lean/Agile Software Development Methodologies in Regulated Environments – State of the Art.” In Lean Enterprise Software and Systems: First International Conference, LESS 2010, Helsinki, Finland, October 17-20, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Pekka Abrahamsson and Nilay Oza, 31–36. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. 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

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Rare Facial Tumor Found For First Time On Duck-Billed Dwarf Dinosaur.” 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. 2014. Advanced Imaging Technology: TSA Needs Additional Information before Procuring Next-Generation Systems. GAO-14-357. 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

Siani, Jennifer Marie. 2009. “Costs and Benefits of Cooperative Infant Care in Wild Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus Rosalia).” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Hollander, Sophia. 2000. “Player’s Dream Takes a Detour in the Bronx.” New York Times, August 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyd 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Boyd 2004; Bringmann and Hyman 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bringmann and Hyman 2005)
Three authors: (Giustino, Cohen, and Louie 2008)
4 or more authors: (Matsui et al. 2013)

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