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

Hoelzel AR (2015) CONSERVATION. Can DNA foil the poachers? Science 349:34–35

A journal article with 2 authors

Read SM, Bacic T (2002) Plant biology. Prime time for cellulose. Science 295:59–60

A journal article with 3 authors

Lineweaver CH, Fenner Y, Gibson BK (2004) The galactic habitable zone and the age distribution of complex life in the Milky Way. Science 303:59–62

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Latta C, Haupt F, Hanl M, et al (2011) Quantum quench of Kondo correlations in optical absorption. Nature 474:627–630

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown BL, Hendrix SB, Hedges DW, Smith TB (2011) Multivariate Analysis for the Biobehavioral and Social Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Patalano R, Reinert SA (eds) (2016) Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Adachi T (2015) Bioethics Education in Japan: Ethics Education for Medical and Nursing Students. In: ten Have HAMJ (ed) Bioethics Education in a Global Perspective: Challenges in global bioethics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 51–64

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

Hamilton K (2017) Immunotherapy: Training The Body To Fight Cancer. In: IFLScience. 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 (2005) Credit Reporting Literacy: Consumers Understood the Basics but Could Benefit from Targeted Educational Efforts. 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

Lee S (2016) Data-driven computer vision for science and the humanities. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Hollander S (2000) Johns Hopkins Goalie Sticks to Daring Style. New York Times D8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoelzel 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Read and Bacic 2002; Hoelzel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Read and Bacic 2002)
Three or more authors: (Latta et al. 2011)

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)