How to format your references using the Mathematical Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematical Social Sciences. 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

Warrant, E., 2015. ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY. Visual tracking in the dead of night. Science 348, 1212–1213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Markus, M.B., Fincham, J.E., 2000. Mbeki and AIDS in Africa. Science 288, 2131d.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friedland, J.C., Lee, M.H., Boettiger, D., 2009. Mechanically activated integrin switch controls alpha5beta1 function. Science 323, 642–644.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Basu, U., Chaudhuri, J., Alpert, C., Dutt, S., Ranganath, S., Li, G., Schrum, J.P., Manis, J.P., Alt, F.W., 2005. The AID antibody diversification enzyme is regulated by protein kinase A phosphorylation. Nature 438, 508–511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B.C., 2008. Legal Aspects of Radiography and Radiology. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Tiwari, R., Lommerse, M., Smith, D. (Eds.), 2014. M² Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson, D.L., 2012. The Rituals of Everyday Life, in: Carlson, D.L. (Ed.), Volunteers of America. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 69–86.

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 Mathematical Social Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Sugary Drinks may Contribute to Almost 200,000 Deaths Worldwide each Year [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, 2006. Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Its Ability to Monitor and Determine the Extent of Competition in Dedicated Access Services (No. GAO-07-80). 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

Bennett, J.L., 2013. An examination of therapeutic recreation programs for veterans with combat-related disabilities and their families (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Need Milk? Too Bad. Maybe a Thong? New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Warrant, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Markus and Fincham, 2000; Warrant, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Markus and Fincham, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Basu et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mathematical Social Sciences
Abbreviation	Math. Soc. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0165-4896
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty General Psychology General Social Sciences Sociology and Political Science