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

Smaglik, Paul. 2003. “Capturing Competencies.” Nature 421 (6925): 871.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solomon, Joseph H., and Mitra J. Hartmann. 2006. “Biomechanics: Robotic Whiskers Used to Sense Features.” Nature 443 (7111): 525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsunami, H., J. P. Montmayeur, and L. B. Buck. 2000. “A Family of Candidate Taste Receptors in Human and Mouse.” Nature 404 (6778): 601–604.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dogan, Jakob, Xin Mu, Åke Engström, and Per Jemth. 2013. “The Transition State Structure for Coupled Binding and Folding of Disordered Protein Domains.” Scientific Reports 3: 2076.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abd-El-Barr, Mostafa, and Hesham El-Rewini. 2004. Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Architecture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ohtsu, Motoichi, and Takashi Yatsui, eds. 2015. Progress in Nanophotonics 3. Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Abramson, David. 2013. “Improved Computational Intelligence through High Performance Distributed Computing.” In The 9th International Conference on Computing and InformationTechnology (IC2IT2013): 9th-10th May 2013 King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, edited by Phayung Meesad, Herwig Unger, and Sirapat Boonkrong, 7–8. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 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 Social and Environmental Accountability Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “Researchers Have Discovered An Ancient Defence Mechanism Inside The Great Pyramid Of Giza.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/researchers-have-discovered-an-ancient-defence-mechanism-inside-the-great-pyramid-of-giza/.

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. 1988. Highways: Acquiring Land for Federal-Aid Projects. RCED-88-112. 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

Ahlert, Darla. 2015. “Application of Graph Theoretic Clustering on Some Biomedical Data Sets.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Billard, Mary. 2010. “Jodi Arnold Expands Her Empire.” New York Times, July 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Solomon and Hartmann 2006).

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

Two authors: (Solomon and Hartmann 2006)
Three authors: (Matsunami, Montmayeur, and Buck 2000)
4 or more authors: (Dogan et al. 2013)

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