How to format your references using the Korean Social Science Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Korean Social Science Journal. 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

Pockley, P. (2001). Gene screens for nuclear veterans. Nature, 412(6842), 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cassenaer, S., & Laurent, G. (2012). Conditional modulation of spike-timing-dependent plasticity for olfactory learning. Nature, 482(7383), 47–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ofstad, T. A., Zuker, C. S., & Reiser, M. B. (2011). Visual place learning in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature, 474(7350), 204–207.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pan, J. W., Bouwmeester, D., Daniell, M., Weinfurter, H., & Zeilinger, A. (2000). Experimental test of quantum nonlocality in three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement. Nature, 403(6769), 515–519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barrett-Lennard, G. T. (2014). The Relationship Inventory. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Narayanan, P. J., Nayar, S. K., & Shum, H.-Y. (Eds.). (2006). Computer Vision – ACCV 2006: 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hyderabad, India, January 13-16, 2006. Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 3851). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ungureanu, M. L. (2015). A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology and Phenomenology in the Philosophy of Language. In I. Pȃrvu, G. Sandu, & I. D. Toader (Eds.), Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science (pp. 55–70). 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 Korean Social Science Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 23). Study Finds Some Female Fish Evolve Bigger Brains When Males Have Bigger Genitals. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-finds-some-female-fish-evolve-bigger-brains-when-males-have-bigger-genitals/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1983). Costs and Uses of Remote Sensing Satellites (No. RCED-83-111). 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

Kamph, M. (2017). Examining Commodity, Agency, and Value: Prehistoric French Replicas, Casts, and “Frauds” within the National Museum of Natural History’s Collection (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, April 17). Justices Uphold Lethal Injection In Kentucky Case. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cassenaer and Laurent 2012; Pockley 2001).

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

Two authors: (Cassenaer and Laurent 2012)
Three or more authors: (Pan et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Korean Social Science Journal
Abbreviation	Korean Soc. Sci. J.
ISSN (print)	1225-0368
ISSN (online)	2196-4424
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