How to format your references using the Social Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Dynamics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Pagel, Mark. 2009. “Natural Selection 150 Years On.” Nature 457 (7231): 808–811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kath, William L., and Julio M. Ottino. 2007. “Chemistry. Rhythm Engineering.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5833): 1857–1858.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seiffert, Erik R., Elwyn L. Simons, and Yousry Attia. 2003. “Fossil Evidence for an Ancient Divergence of Lorises and Galagos.” Nature 422 (6930): 421–424.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Montoro, Daniel T., Adam L. Haber, Moshe Biton, Vladimir Vinarsky, Brian Lin, Susan E. Birket, Feng Yuan, et al. 2018. “A Revised Airway Epithelial Hierarchy Includes CFTR-Expressing Ionocytes.” Nature 560 (7718): 319–324.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman, Steven H. 2006. ESD. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Albeverio, Sergio, Volker Jentsch, and Holger Kantz, eds. 2006. Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The Frontiers Collection. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Amira, Nir, Ran Giladi, and Zvi Lotker. 2010. “Distributed Weighted Stable Marriage Problem.” In Structural Information and Communication Complexity: 17th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2010, Şirince, Turkey, June 7-11, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Boaz Patt-Shamir and Tınaz Ekim, 29–40. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Doctors Hope To Convert Fat Into Ears.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-hope-convert-fat-ears/.

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. 2014. Information Technology: HUD Can Take Additional Actions to Improve Its Governance. GAO-15-56. 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

Blankenship, Kevin. 2017. “An Analysis of Illinois Public School Funding a Descriptive Comparison of Equity: 2005 v. 2015.” 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

Vecsey, George. 2013. “In Snowstorm, U.S. Finds Remedy For a Cold Spell.” New York Times, March 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pagel 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Pagel 2009; Kath and Ottino 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kath and Ottino 2007)
Three authors: (Seiffert, Simons, and Attia 2003)
4 or more authors: (Montoro et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Dynamics
Abbreviation	Soc. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0253-3952
ISSN (online)	1940-7874
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous)