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

Wigzell, Hans. 2002. “Science in Europe. Framework Programmes Evolve.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5554): 443–445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simner, Julia, and Jamie Ward. 2006. “Synaesthesia: The Taste of Words on the Tip of the Tongue.” Nature 444 (7118): 438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kavanagh, Kathryn D., Alistair R. Evans, and Jukka Jernvall. 2007. “Predicting Evolutionary Patterns of Mammalian Teeth from Development.” Nature 449 (7161): 427–432.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kirkegaard, Thomas, Anke G. Roth, Nikolaj H. T. Petersen, Ajay K. Mahalka, Ole Dines Olsen, Irina Moilanen, Alicja Zylicz, et al. 2010. “Hsp70 Stabilizes Lysosomes and Reverts Niemann-Pick Disease-Associated Lysosomal Pathology.” Nature 463 (7280): 549–553.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Janovy, John, and Gerald W. Esch. 2016. A Century of Parasitology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Reddy, G. Vishwanatha. 2016. Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests. Edited by K. Ullas Karanth, N. Samba Kumar, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, and Krithi K. Karanth. SpringerBriefs in Ecology. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Yong, Dechang Yang, Fang Liu, Yijia Cao, and Christian Rehtanz. 2016. “Identification of Dominant Complex Orthogonal Mode (COM).” In Interconnected Power Systems: Wide-Area Dynamic Monitoring and Control Applications, edited by Dechang Yang, Fang Liu, Yijia Cao, and Christian Rehtanz, 75–92. Power Systems. 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. 2015. “9,000-Year-Old Case Of Ritualistic Beheading That May Be Oldest In Americas.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2009. High Speed Passenger Rail: Future Development Will Depend on Addressing Financial and Other Challenges and Establishing a Clear Federal Role. GAO-09-560T. 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

Mickels, Betty Jean. 2010. “A Phenomenological Research Study on the Formation of Global Business Teams.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. “For 239th-Ranked Player, Faith in Qualifying Pays Off.” New York Times, January 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wigzell 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Wigzell 2002; Simner and Ward 2006).

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

Two authors: (Simner and Ward 2006)
Three authors: (Kavanagh, Evans, and Jernvall 2007)
4 or more authors: (Kirkegaard et al. 2010)

About the journal

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