How to format your references using the Social Identities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Identities. 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

Downer, J. (2001). A tortured tale of supply and demand. Nature, 410(6829), 624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fengos, G., & Iber, D. (2013). Prediction stability in a data-based, mechanistic model of σF regulation during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Scientific Reports, 3, 2755.

A journal article with 3 authors

McMahon, S. M., Miller, K. H., & Drake, J. (2001). Social science and ecology. Networking tips for social scientists and ecologists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5535), 1604–1605.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Reed, M. B., Domenech, P., Manca, C., Su, H., Barczak, A. K., Kreiswirth, B. N., Kaplan, G., & Barry, C. E., 3rd. (2004). A glycolipid of hypervirulent tuberculosis strains that inhibits the innate immune response. Nature, 431(7004), 84–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chassaing, R. (2004). Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the C6713 and C6416 DSK. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dabbagh, A., Esmailian, F., & Aranki, S. F. (Eds.). (2014). Postoperative Critical Care for Cardiac Surgical Patients. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Novick, A. C. (2006). Renal Malignancy. In A. C. Novick, J. Stephen Jones, I. S. Gill, E. A. Klein, R. Rackley, & J. H. Ross (Eds.), Operative Urology at the Cleveland Clinic (pp. 31–50). Humana Press.

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 Identities.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, May 12). “Lost Mayan City” Discovered By Teenager May Not Be A City After All. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/lost-mayan-city-canadian-kid-discovered-may-not-be-city-after-all/

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. (1977). Capitalization and Use of the Automatic Data Processing Fund That Is Administered by the General Services Administration (B-115369). 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

Mier, L. M. (2012). Monitoring Electron Transfer Reactions using Ultrafast UV-Visible and Infrared Spectroscopy [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, February 9). Left on Purpose. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Downer, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Downer, 2001; Fengos & Iber, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Fengos & Iber, 2013)
Three authors: (McMahon et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Reed et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Identities
ISSN (print)	1350-4630
ISSN (online)	1363-0296
Scope	Sociology and Political Science