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

Cann, Rebecca L. 2013. “Genetics. Y Weigh in Again on Modern Humans.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341 (6145): 465–467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinnamon, Sue C., and Susan D. Reynolds. 2009. “Cell Biology. Using Taste to Clear the Air(Ways).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5944): 1081–1082.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aspinwall, Lisa G., Teneille R. Brown, and James Tabery. 2012. “The Double-Edged Sword: Does Biomechanism Increase or Decrease Judges’ Sentencing of Psychopaths?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6096): 846–849.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jin, Rongchao, Y. Charles Cao, Encai Hao, Gabriella S. Métraux, George C. Schatz, and Chad A. Mirkin. 2003. “Controlling Anisotropic Nanoparticle Growth through Plasmon Excitation.” Nature 425 (6957): 487–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eligehausen, R., R. Mallée, and J. F. Silva. 2012. Anchorage in Concrete Construction. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Levy, Raymond A., and J. Stuart Ablon, eds. 2009. Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice. Current Clinical Psychiatry. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Mortimer, Eduardo F., and Luiz Otávio F. Amaral. 2014. “Contributions of the Sociocultural Domain to Build a Conceptual Profile Model for Molecule and Molecular Structure.” In Conceptual Profiles: A Theory of Teaching and Learning Scientific Concepts, edited by Eduardo F. Mortimer and Charbel N. El-Hani, 103–114. Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. 2014. “Outstanding Time-Lapse of a Stellar Explosion From Hubble.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1990. Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation Aircraft Should Be Centrally Managed Like Other Interior Aircraft. GGD-90-20. 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

Cox, David Christopher. 2008. “A Measurement of the Neutral Current Neutrino-Nucleon Elastic Cross Section at MiniBooNE.” Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2016. “Puerto Rico Aims to Appease Congress With a New Proposal on Its Debt.” New York Times, April 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cann 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cann 2013; Kinnamon and Reynolds 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kinnamon and Reynolds 2009)
Three authors: (Aspinwall, Brown, and Tabery 2012)
4 or more authors: (Jin et al. 2003)

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