How to format your references using the Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and 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	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

Yin, Q.-Z. (2004). Planetary science. Predicting the Sun’s oxygen isotope composition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1729–1730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vafabakhsh, R., & Ha, T. (2012). Extreme bendability of DNA less than 100 base pairs long revealed by single-molecule cyclization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1097–1101.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, Q., Haynes, K. F., & Zhou, X. (2013). Differential undertaking response of a lower termite to congeneric and conspecific corpses. Scientific Reports, 3, 1650.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pancer, Z., Amemiya, C. T., Ehrhardt, G. R. A., Ceitlin, J., Gartland, G. L., & Cooper, M. D. (2004). Somatic diversification of variable lymphocyte receptors in the agnathan sea lamprey. Nature, 430(6996), 174–180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kizer, G. (2013). Digital Microwave Communication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Conrad, K. (Ed.). (2016). Absolute Hospital Medicine Review: An Intensive Question & Answer Guide (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheth, A. N., Lahiri, C. D., & Ofotokun, I. (2015). Sex Differences in Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. In S. L. Klein & C. W. Roberts (Eds.), Sex and Gender Differences in Infection and Treatments for Infectious Diseases (pp. 75–102). 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 Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015, October 7). Close-Up Of Comet Shows Surface Changes In Its Approach To The Sun. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1988). Space Station: NASA Efforts To Establish a Design-To-Life-Cycle Cost Process (NSIAD-88-147). 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

Weisblatt, B. H. (2010). The numinous on Russian soil: A depth psychological interpretation of religious experience in “The Brothers Karamazov” [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Hubbard, B. (2017, September 22). Instead of Hero’s Welcome, Treason Charges. 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 (Yin, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Vafabakhsh & Ha, 2012; Yin, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Vafabakhsh & Ha, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Pancer et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Abbreviation	Methodology (Gott.)
ISSN (print)	1614-1881
ISSN (online)	1614-2241
Scope	General Psychology General Social Sciences