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

Insel, Thomas R. 2010. “Rethinking Schizophrenia.” Nature 468 (7321): 187–193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grumbine, R. Edward, and Maharaj K. Pandit. 2013. “Ecology. Threats from India’s Himalaya Dams.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6115): 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghaffari, H. O., M. H. B. Nasseri, and R. Paul Young. 2014. “Faulting of Rocks in a Three-Dimensional Stress Field by Micro-Anticracks.” Scientific Reports 4 (May): 5011.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Miller, M. Meghan, Tim Melbourne, Daniel J. Johnson, and William Q. Sumner. 2002. “Periodic Slow Earthquakes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5564): 2423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Borchard-Tuch, Claudia, and Michael Groß. 2005. Was Biotronik Alles Kann. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Rebeiz, Constantin A., Christoph Benning, Hans J. Bohnert, Henry Daniell, J. Kenneth Hoober, Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler, Archie R. Portis, and Baishnab C. Tripathy, eds. 2010. The Chloroplast: Basics and Applications. Vol. 31. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Nayak, Manan, Shashank Agrawal, and Kannan Srinathan. 2011. “Minimal Connectivity for Unconditionally Secure Message Transmission in Synchronous Directed Networks.” In Information Theoretic Security: 5th International Conference, ICITS 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 21-24, 2011. Proceedings, edited by Serge Fehr, 32–51. 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. “New Test Detects Fatal Brain Disease Earlier And More Accurately Than Previous Methods.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-test-detects-fatal-brain-disease-earlier-and-more-accurately-previous/.

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. 2006. Head Start: Progress and Challenges in Implementing Transportation Regulations. GAO-06-767R. 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

Horton, Connie R. 2013. “Financial Crisis within the Nonprofit Sector.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Shear, Michael D., and Sheryl Gay Stolberg. 2017. “President Meets With McConnell, Like Old Friends.” New York Times, October 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Insel 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Insel 2010; Grumbine and Pandit 2013).

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

Two authors: (Grumbine and Pandit 2013)
Three authors: (Ghaffari, Nasseri, and Young 2014)
4 or more authors: (Miller et al. 2002)

About the journal

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