How to format your references using the Social Choice and Welfare citation style

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

Pickett G (2000) Superfluidity. A new twist to an old story. Nature 404:450–451

A journal article with 2 authors

Artal-Sanz M, Tavernarakis N (2009) Prohibitin couples diapause signalling to mitochondrial metabolism during ageing in C. elegans. Nature 461:793–797

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferain I, Colinge CA, Colinge J-P (2011) Multigate transistors as the future of classical metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. Nature 479:310–316

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Herz AVM, Gollisch T, Machens CK, Jaeger D (2006) Modeling single-neuron dynamics and computations: a balance of detail and abstraction. Science 314:80–85

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang HK (2005) PACS and Imaging Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Boulicaut J-F, Raedt LD, Mannila H (eds) (2006) Constraint-Based Mining and Inductive Databases: European Workshop on Inductive Databases and Constraint Based Mining, Hinterzarten, Germany, March 11-13, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

de Menezes MV, do Lago Pereira S, de Barros LN (2010) System Design Modification with Actions. In: Rocha Costa AC da, Vicari RM, Tonidandel F (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – SBIA 2010: 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, October 23-28, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–40

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 Choice and Welfare.

Blog post

Carpineti C (2017) New Stem Cell Method Produces Millions of Human Brain Cells In Days. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-stem-cell-method-produces-millions-of-human-brain-cells-in-days/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2003) Telecommunications: Data Gathering Weaknesses In FCC’s Survey Of Information on Factors Underlying Cable Rate Changes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Satterlee RT (2009) A case study of undergraduate student employment at a private university: Exploring the effects of social class and institutional context. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Saslow L (2006) Village Moves to Deter Illegal Housing. New York Times 14LI9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pickett 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Pickett 2000; Artal-Sanz and Tavernarakis 2009).

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

Two authors: (Artal-Sanz and Tavernarakis 2009)
Three or more authors: (Herz et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Choice and Welfare
Abbreviation	Soc. Choice Welfare
ISSN (print)	0176-1714
ISSN (online)	1432-217X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Social Sciences (miscellaneous)