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

Schopper, H. (2006). Islam and science: where are the new patrons of science? Nature, 444(7115), 35–36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Price, W. N., 2nd, & Rai, A. K. (2015). Drug Development. Are trade secrets delaying biosimilars? Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6231), 188–189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pauluis, O., Czaja, A., & Korty, R. (2008). The global atmospheric circulation on moist isentropes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5892), 1075–1078.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Han, Q., Hsieh, Y.-T., Meng, L., Wu, J.-L., Sun, P., Yao, E.-P., Chang, S.-Y., Bae, S.-H., Kato, T., Bermudez, V., & Yang, Y. (2018). High-performance perovskite/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 monolithic tandem solar cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6405), 904–908.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, I. M., Griffiths, D. V., & Margetts, L. (2015). Programming the Finite Element Method. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Camps, J. (Ed.). (2014). Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Non-communicable Diseases - Molecular Mechanisms and Perspectives in Therapeutics (Vol. 824). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mau, S. (2009). Who are the Globalizers? The Role of Education and Educational Elites. In L. Meier & H. Lange (Eds.), The New Middle Classes: Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism and Environmental Concern (pp. 65–79). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, May 27). Obesity In Teenage Years Linked With Bowel Cancer Later In Life. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/obesity-teenage-years-linked-bowel-cancer-later-life/

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). Intercity Passenger Rail: The Congress Faces Critical Decisions About the Role of and Funding for Intercity Passenger Rail Systems (GAO-01-820T). 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

Mitchell, J. E. (2009). Job satisfaction and burnout among foreign -trained nurses in Saudi Arabia: A mixed-method study [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Johnson, G. (2015, May 19). Turning Nature Against Cancer. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schopper, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Price & Rai, 2015; Schopper, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Price & Rai, 2015)
Three authors: (Pauluis et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Han et al., 2018)

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