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

Winfree, A.T., 2002. Oscillating systems. On emerging coherence. Science 298, 2336–2337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaffe, M., Allam, S., 2015. POLYMER CHEMISTRY. Safer fuels by integrating polymer theory into design. Science 350, 32.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pronin, S.V., Reiher, C.A., Shenvi, R.A., 2013. Stereoinversion of tertiary alcohols to tertiary-alkyl isonitriles and amines. Nature 501, 195–199.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Song, W., Kwon, S.Y., Myung, S., Jung, M.W., Kim, S.J., Min, B.K., Kang, M.-A., Kim, S.H., Lim, J., An, K.-S., 2014. High-mobility ambipolar ZnO-graphene hybrid thin film transistors. Sci. Rep. 4, 4064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein, P.D., 2016. Pulmonary Embolism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Oquendo, F. (Ed.), 2007. Software Architecture: First European Conference, ECSA 2007 Aranjuez, Spain, September 24-26, 2007 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sprake, J., 2012. Traits of the Tour and Tour-Guide, in: Sprake, J. (Ed.), Learning-Through-Touring: Mobilising Learners and Touring Technologies to Creatively Explore the Built Environment. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 81–145.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Scientists Work Out How To Make Matter From Light [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1970. Activities of Washington Data Processing Center Statistical Research Service (No. B-167008). 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

Sheppard, K.C., 2017. An Examination of School Choice Access, Opportunities, and Academic Outcomes in an Intra-District School Choice Program (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

MacFARQUHAR, N., 2017. Demonstrators Hit the Streets to Fight Moscow’s Mass Renovation Plan. New York Times A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winfree, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jaffe and Allam, 2015; Winfree, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jaffe and Allam, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

About the journal

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