How to format your references using the Social and Environmental Accountability Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social and Environmental Accountability Journal. 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

Hambäck, Peter A. 2010. “Ecology. A Green or a Prickly World?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5973): 1583–1584.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aratyn-Schaus, Yvonne, and Margaret L. Gardel. 2008. “Biophysics. Clutch Dynamics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5908): 1646–1647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behrens, Timothy E. J., Laurence T. Hunt, and Matthew F. S. Rushworth. 2009. “The Computation of Social Behavior.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5931): 1160–1164.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mariantoni, Matteo, H. Wang, T. Yamamoto, M. Neeley, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Y. Chen, M. Lenander, et al. 2011. “Implementing the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6052): 61–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannon, Christopher M. 2011. An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Burrows, Anne M., and Leanne T. Nash, eds. 2010. The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates. First. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Akesson, Benny, and Kees Goossens. 2012. “Resource Arbitration.” In Memory Controllers for Real-Time Embedded Systems: Predictable and Composable Real-Time Systems, edited by Kees Goossens, 105–142. Embedded Systems. New York, NY: 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 Social and Environmental Accountability Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “How Did Life On Earth Start?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-did-life-earth-start/.

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. 2016. Inland Waterways Fuel Tax: Additional Data Could Enhance IRS’s Efforts to Ensure Taxpayer Compliance. GAO-16-682. 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

Gopalappa, Chaitra. 2010. “Three Essays on Analytical Models to Improve Early Detection of Cancer.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: 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

Jeffries, Michael P. 2017. “The Rage in Harlem, and Beyond.” New York Times, August 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hambäck 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hambäck 2010; Aratyn-Schaus and Gardel 2008).

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

Two authors: (Aratyn-Schaus and Gardel 2008)
Three authors: (Behrens, Hunt, and Rushworth 2009)
4 or more authors: (Mariantoni et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
Abbreviation	Soc. Environ. Acc. J.
ISSN (print)	0969-160X
ISSN (online)	2156-2245
Scope	Accounting