How to format your references using the International Journal of Social Research Methodology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 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

Sack, F. D. (2004). Plant sciences. Yoda would be proud: valves for land plants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1461–1462.

A journal article with 2 authors

Attrill, M. J., & Power, M. (2002). Climatic influence on a marine fish assemblage. Nature, 417(6886), 275–278.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kourtis, N., Nikoletopoulou, V., & Tavernarakis, N. (2012). Small heat-shock proteins protect from heat-stroke-associated neurodegeneration. Nature, 490(7419), 213–218.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hayashi, S., Kato, K., Norimatsu, K., Hada, M., Kayanuma, Y., & Nakamura, K. G. (2014). Measuring quantum coherence in bulk solids using dual phase-locked optical pulses. Scientific Reports, 4, 4456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, R. X., & Conkey, A. P. (2016). Troubleshooting Rotating Machinery. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dang, Q. A., Nguyen, X. H., Le, H. B., Nguyen, V. H., & Bao, V. N. Q. (Eds.). (2015). Some Current Advanced Researches on Information and Computer Science in Vietnam: Post-proceedings of The First NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (Vol. 341). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hüsing, T., Gareis, K., & Korte, W. B. (2006). The Impact of ICT on Social Cohesion: Looking Beyond the Digital Divide. In S. Dutta, A. D. Meyer, A. Jain, & G. Richter (Eds.), The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe (pp. 75–123). 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 International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 19). Have We Really Discovered A Huge Alien Megastructure Around A Star? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/have-we-really-discovered-huge-alien-megastructure-around-star/

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. (1980). Public Issues Pertaining to Science and Technology (B-199444). 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

Bryant, M. G. (2017). The Development of the Massive Open Online Course Virtual Learning Environment Scale (MVLE) and Model to Measure Satisfaction of MOOC Online Learning Courses in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1995, January 29). F.Y.I. New York Times, 132.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sack, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Attrill & Power, 2002; Sack, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Attrill & Power, 2002)
Three authors: (Kourtis et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Hayashi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Soc. Res. Methodol.
ISSN (print)	1364-5579
ISSN (online)	1464-5300
Scope	General Social Sciences