How to format your references using the Journal of Socio-Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Socio-Economics. 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

Hawley, R.S., 2011. Molecular biology. Hitting a tiny target in the dark. Science 331, 870–871.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simons, K., Mattaj, I.W., 2011. Retrospective. Lennart Philipson (1929-2011). Science 333, 711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Kritzinger, S., Skirbekk, V., 2006. Population. The demography of growing European identity. Science 314, 425.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Dijk, E.L., Chen, C.L., d’Aubenton-Carafa, Y., Gourvennec, S., Kwapisz, M., Roche, V., Bertrand, C., Silvain, M., Legoix-Né, P., Loeillet, S., Nicolas, A., Thermes, C., Morillon, A., 2011. XUTs are a class of Xrn1-sensitive antisense regulatory non-coding RNA in yeast. Nature 475, 114–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padova, T., Murdock, K.L., 2010. Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Shingareva, I., 2011. Solving Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Maple and Mathematica. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Orriols-Puig, A., Casillas, J., Bernadó-Mansilla, E., 2008. Evolving Fuzzy Rules with UCS: Preliminary Results, in: Bacardit, J., Bernadó-Mansilla, E., Butz, M.V., Kovacs, T., Llorà, X., Takadama, K. (Eds.), Learning Classifier Systems: 10th International Workshop, IWLCS 2006, Seattle, MA, USA, July 8, 2006 and 11th International Workshop, IWLCS 2007, London, UK, July 8, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–76.

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 Journal of Socio-Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. Five Ways Nanoscience Is Making Science Fiction Into Fact [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-ways-nanoscience-is-making-science-fiction-into-fact/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1995. District of Columbia: Weaknesses in Personnel Records and Public Schools’ Management Information and Controls (No. T-AIMD-95-170). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Konggidinata, M.I., 2017. Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Hodgman, J., 2016. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM38.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hawley, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hawley, 2011; Simons and Mattaj, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Simons and Mattaj, 2011)
Three or more authors: (van Dijk et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Socio-Economics
Abbreviation	J. Socio Econ.
ISSN (print)	1053-5357
Scope	Economics and Econometrics