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

Simmons, R. (2001). Sense and sensibility. Nature, 411(6835), 243.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirchner, J. W., & Weil, A. (2000). Delayed biological recovery from extinctions throughout the fossil record. Nature, 404(6774), 177–180.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson, A. M., Watson, J. C., & Lichtwark, G. A. (2003). Biomechanics: A catapult action for rapid limb protraction. Nature, 421(6918), 35–36.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

de Fockert, J. W., Rees, G., Frith, C. D., & Lavie, N. (2001). The role of working memory in visual selective attention. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5509), 1803–1806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Billingsley, J. (2006). Essentials of Mechatronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mersini-Houghton, L., & Vaas, R. (Eds.). (2012). The Arrows of Time: A Debate in Cosmology (Vol. 172). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fröhlich, F., Theis, F. J., & Hasenauer, J. (2014). Uncertainty Analysis for Non-identifiable Dynamical Systems: Profile Likelihoods, Bootstrapping and More. In P. Mendes, J. O. Dada, & K. Smallbone (Eds.), Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 12th International Conference, CMSB 2014, Manchester, UK, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings (pp. 61–72). 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, November 9). Astronomers Witness The Dying “Breath” Of A Giant Radio Galaxy. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-witness-dying-breath-giant-radio-galaxy/

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. (1973). Effective Central Control Could Improve DOD’s Ammunition Logistics (B-176139). 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

Reich, J. C. (2010). An iterative feature perturbation method for gene selection from microarray data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Cooper, M., & Walsh, M. W. (2010, December 5). MOUNTING DEBTS BY STATES STOKE FEARS OF CRISIS. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simmons, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kirchner & Weil, 2000; Simmons, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kirchner & Weil, 2000)
Three authors: (Wilson et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (de Fockert et al., 2001)

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

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