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

Montoya, J.P., 2009. Ocean science. Old new nitrogen. Science 323, 219–220.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fesik, S.W., Shi, Y., 2001. Structural biology. Controlling the caspases. Science 294, 1477–1478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Armitage, J.J., Collier, J.S., Minshull, T.A., 2010. The importance of rift history for volcanic margin formation. Nature 465, 913–917.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Denver, D.R., Morris, K., Lynch, M., Thomas, W.K., 2004. High mutation rate and predominance of insertions in the Caenorhabditis elegans nuclear genome. Nature 430, 679–682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair, T.H., 2016. Energy Production Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Patra, A.K. (Ed.), 2012. Dietary Phytochemicals and Microbes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Frey, S., Grammig, J., 2008. Liquidity supply and adverse selection in a pure limit order book market, in: Bauwens, L., Pohlmeier, W., Veredas, D. (Eds.), High Frequency Financial Econometrics: Recent Developments. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp. 83–109.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Why Male And Female Salmon Age Differently [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-male-and-female-salmon-age-differently/ (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, 2001. Student Discipline: Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (No. GAO-01-210). 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

Jackson, R.A., 2017. Musculoskeletal Injuries in California Ocean Lifeguards (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Daoud, K., 2017. What Arabs Have Learned From Syria’s War. New York Times SR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montoya, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Fesik and Shi, 2001; Montoya, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Fesik and Shi, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Denver et al., 2004)

About the journal

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