How to format your references using the Research in Social Stratification and Mobility citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 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

Southwood, D. (2012). Research collaboration: When international partnerships go wrong. Nature, 488(7412), 451–453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Excoffier, L., & Hamilton, G. (2003). Comment on “Genetic structure of human populations.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1877; author reply 1877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kent, A., Massar, S., & Silman, J. (2014). Secure and robust transmission and verification of unknown quantum states in Minkowski space. Scientific Reports, 4, 3901.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chang, C.-I., Chelliah, Y., Borek, D., Mengin-Lecreulx, D., & Deisenhofer, J. (2006). Structure of tracheal cytotoxin in complex with a heterodimeric pattern-recognition receptor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5768), 1761–1764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pohl, J. (2011). Building Science. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Paganini, G., & Neto, J. R. M. (Eds.). (2009). Renaissance Scepticisms (Vol. 199). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sracic, M. W., & Allen, M. S. (2011). Numerical Continuation of Periodic Orbits for Harmonically Forced Nonlinear Systems. In T. Proulx (Ed.), Civil Engineering Topics, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2011 (pp. 51–69). 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 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 27). Yellowstone Earthquakes Reveal A Volcanic System Six Times Bigger Than We Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-earthquakes-reveal-volcanic-system-six-times-bigger-we-thought/

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. (1979). Energy Information Administration’s Proposed Energy Company Financial Reporting System Collection Form (B-178205.42). 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

Prasad, H. (2017). Removing a Thorn with a Thorn: Evaluating India’s Use of Militias in Counterinsurgency [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Leland, J., & Nir, S. M. (2017, August 22). The Village Voice, Keeper of Downtown Cool, Will Shed Its Print Edition. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Southwood, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Excoffier & Hamilton, 2003; Southwood, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Excoffier & Hamilton, 2003)
Three authors: (Kent et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Chang et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Abbreviation	Res. Soc. Stratif. Mobil.
ISSN (print)	0276-5624
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous)