How to format your references using the Race and Social Problems citation style

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

Russo, E. (2002). Chemistry plans a structural overhaul. Nature, 419(6903), 4–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neill, M. J., & O’Neill, R. J. (2014). Genomics: Something to swing about. Nature, 513(7517), 174–175.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuwamura, T., Kadota, T., & Suzuki, S. (2014). Testing the low-density hypothesis for reversed sex change in polygynous fish: experiments in Labroides dimidiatus. Scientific reports, 4, 4369.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lanyon, B. P., Hempel, C., Nigg, D., Müller, M., Gerritsma, R., Zähringer, F., et al. (2011). Universal digital quantum simulation with trapped ions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6052), 57–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bilbao, S. (2005). Wave and Scattering Methods for Numerical Simulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lemmon, D. R. (2005). Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95. (J. L. Schafer, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dever, M., & Hamilton, G. W. (2015). Automatically Partitioning Data to Facilitate the Parallelization of Functional Programs. In A. Voronkov & I. Virbitskaite (Eds.), Perspectives of System Informatics: 9th International Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 59–66). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Race and Social Problems.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 24). What Consumers Want In GM Food Labeling Is Simpler Than You Think. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-consumers-want-in-gm-food-labeling-is-simpler-than-you-think/. 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. (2014). Unmanned Aerial Systems: Efforts Made toward Integration into the National Airspace Continue, but Many Actions Still Required (No. GAO-15-254T). 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

Kohl, J. L. (2009). The association of critical thinking and participation in living and learning programs: Residential Honors compared to Civic /Social Leadership programs and non -participation in living and learning programs (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hodara, S. (2017, June 21). Progress and Preservation, in a Small-Town Package. New York Times, p. RE8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo 2002).
This sentence cites two references (O’Neill and O’Neill 2014; Russo 2002).

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

Two authors: (O’Neill and O’Neill 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lanyon et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Race and Social Problems
Abbreviation	Race Soc. Probl.
ISSN (print)	1867-1748
ISSN (online)	1867-1756
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Anthropology