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

Jarrold MF (2000) The smallest fullerene. Nature 407:26–27

A journal article with 2 authors

Karp X, Ambros V (2005) Developmental biology. Encountering microRNAs in cell fate signaling. Science 310:1288–1289

A journal article with 3 authors

Thore S, Leibundgut M, Ban N (2006) Structure of the eukaryotic thiamine pyrophosphate riboswitch with its regulatory ligand. Science 312:1208–1211

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Trotman LC, Alimonti A, Scaglioni PP, et al (2006) Identification of a tumour suppressor network opposing nuclear Akt function. Nature 441:523–527

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman NP (2012) Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pahl J, Reiners T, Voß S (eds) (2011) Network Optimization: 5th International Conference, INOC 2011, Hamburg, Germany, June 13-16, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lin S-H (2005) Intelligent Internet Information Systems in Knowledge Acquisition: Techniques and Applications. In: Leondes CT (ed) Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems: Business and Technology in the New Millennium. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 110–139

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 A (2016) There Might Be A Huge Salty Ocean Beneath Pluto’s Heart. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-might-be-a-huge-salty-ocean-beneath-plutos-heart/. 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 (1991) FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. 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

Alsaadi A (2016) Smart smoke and fire detection with wireless and global system for mobile technology. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K (2000) Selling Tea as Serenity, Not Snobbery. New York Times 144

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jarrold 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Jarrold 2000; Karp and Ambros 2005).

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

Two authors: (Karp and Ambros 2005)
Three or more authors: (Trotman 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)