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

Sandman, P. M. (2009). Pandemics: good hygiene is not enough. Nature, 459(7245), 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shepherd, A., & Wingham, D. (2007). Recent sea-level contributions of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5818), 1529–1532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hinrichs, K.-U., Hmelo, L. R., & Sylva, S. P. (2003). Molecular fossil record of elevated methane levels in late Pleistocene coastal waters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5610), 1214–1217.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Salmon, P. S., Martin, R. A., Mason, P. E., & Cuello, G. J. (2005). Topological versus chemical ordering in network glasses at intermediate and extended length scales. Nature, 435(7038), 75–78.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kääriäinen, T., Cameron, D., Kääriäinen, M.-L., & Sherman, A. (2013). Atomic Layer Deposition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Das, D. (Ed.). (2015). Algal Biorefinery: An Integrated Approach (1st ed. 2015). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Neves, M. F., Trombin, V. G., Lopes, F. F., Kalaki, R., & Milan, P. (2012). Citrus exports. In V. G. Trombin, F. F. Lopes, R. Kalaki, & P. Milan (Eds.), The orange juice business: A Brazilian perspective (pp. 25–26). Wageningen Academic Publishers.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, July 15). Italy’s Volcanic Rocks Like Reinforced Roman Concrete. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/italys-volcanic-rocks-reinforced-roman-concrete/

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. (1993). Transition From School to Work: H.R. 2884 Addresses Components of Comprehensive Strategy (T-HRD-93-32). 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

Finnegan, R. J. (2010). Information food webs: A quantitative inquiry using a biological food web methodology [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Kelly, M. (2001, December 9). Politically Charged Graffiti Treats Spears as a Symptom, Not a Star. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sandman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Sandman, 2009; Shepherd & Wingham, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Shepherd & Wingham, 2007)
Three authors: (Hinrichs et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Salmon et al., 2005)

About the journal

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