How to format your references using the International Studies in Sociology of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Studies in Sociology of Education. 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

Clayton, Julie. 2004. “RNA Interference: The Silent Treatment.” Nature 431 (7008): 599–605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dziak, Robert P., and H. Paul Johnson. 2002. “Hydrothermal Systems. Stirring the Oceanic Incubator.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5572): 1406–1407.

A journal article with 3 authors

Quoidbach, Jordi, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Timothy D. Wilson. 2013. “The End of History Illusion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6115): 96–98.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shin, Bum Ryong, Young Jin Nam, Jin Wook Kim, Young-Gi Lee, and Yoon Seok Jung. 2014. “Interfacial Architecture for Extra Li⁺ Storage in All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries.” Scientific Reports 4 (July): 5572.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pompian, Michael M. 2009. Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zeng, Rui, ed. 2016. Graphics-Sequenced Interpretation of ECG. 1st ed. 2016. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kulić, M. L., and A. I. Buzdin. 2008. “Coexistence of Singlet Superconductivity and Magnetic Order in Bulk Magnetic Superconductors and SF Heterostructures.” In Superconductivity: Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors, edited by K. H. Bennemann and John B. Ketterson, 163–200. 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 International Studies in Sociology of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Engineering’s Unexpected And Microscopic Beauty.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/engineering-s-unexpected-and-microscopic-beauty/.

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. 1997. NASA: Interest Earned on Letter of Credit Funds. NSIAD-97-241R. 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

Bailey, Kristin Michelle. 2017. “A Phenomenological Study of How Biblical Spiritual Disciplines Influence Women’s Character and Leadership Practices in Christian Faith-Based Institutions in Higher Education in North America.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Kelly, Caitlin. 2012. “Drop Out, Dive In, Start Up.” New York Times, September 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clayton 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Clayton 2004; Dziak and Johnson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Dziak and Johnson 2002)
Three authors: (Quoidbach, Gilbert, and Wilson 2013)
4 or more authors: (Shin et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies in Sociology of Education
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Sociol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0962-0214
ISSN (online)	1747-5066
Scope	General Social Sciences Education