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

Schrag, Daniel P. 2007. “Preparing to Capture Carbon.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5813): 812–813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nechiporuk, Alex, and David W. Raible. 2008. “FGF-Dependent Mechanosensory Organ Patterning in Zebrafish.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5884): 1774–1777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Girvetz, Evan H., Jochen A. G. Jaeger, and James H. Thorne. 2007. “Comment on ‘Roadless Space of the Conterminous United States.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5854): 1240; author reply 1240.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sporea, R. A., M. J. Trainor, N. D. Young, J. M. Shannon, and S. R. P. Silva. 2014. “Source-Gated Transistors for Order-of-Magnitude Performance Improvements in Thin-Film Digital Circuits.” Scientific Reports 4 (March): 4295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Natsuno, Takeshi. 2005. I-Mode Strategy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Okada, Alexandra, Simon J. Buckingham Shum, and Tony Sherborne, eds. 2014. Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. 2nd ed. 2014. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Tiffany. 2016. “Pharmacological Treatment of Painful Nerve Entrapment Syndrome.” In Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management, edited by Andrea M. Trescot, 19–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. 2015. “Most People Think ‘Man’ When They Think ‘Scientist’ – How Can We Kill The Stereotype?” 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. 1988. Information Systems: Agencies Overlook Security Controls During Development. IMTEC-88-11. 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

Liza, Jessica Stephanie. 2009. “Mentors’ Perceptions of Bullying in Middle and High School Settings.” 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

Creswell, Julie, and Michael J. de la MERCED. 2017. “Activist Investor Seeks Seat at Procter & Gamble.” New York Times, July 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schrag 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Schrag 2007; Nechiporuk and Raible 2008).

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

Two authors: (Nechiporuk and Raible 2008)
Three authors: (Girvetz, Jaeger, and Thorne 2007)
4 or more authors: (Sporea 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