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

Szidat, S. (2009). Atmosphere. Sources of Asian haze. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 470–471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, O. Y., & Hosken, D. J. (2003). The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict. Nature, 423(6943), 979–982.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petersen, J., Volz, J., & Rauschenbeutel, A. (2014). Nanophotonics. Chiral nanophotonic waveguide interface based on spin-orbit interaction of light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6205), 67–71.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Szenker-Ravi, E., Altunoglu, U., Leushacke, M., Bosso-Lefèvre, C., Khatoo, M., Thi Tran, H., Naert, T., Noelanders, R., Hajamohideen, A., Beneteau, C., de Sousa, S. B., Karaman, B., Latypova, X., Başaran, S., Yücel, E. B., Tan, T. T., Vlaminck, L., Nayak, S. S., Shukla, A., … Reversade, B. (2018). RSPO2 inhibition of RNF43 and ZNRF3 governs limb development independently of LGR4/5/6. Nature, 557(7706), 564–569.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bielecki, T. R., Brigo, D., & Patras, F. (2011). Credit Risk Frontiers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Blömeke, S., Hsieh, F.-J., Kaiser, G., & Schmidt, W. H. (Eds.). (2014). International Perspectives on Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn: TEDS-M Results. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Fouqueré, C. (2011). Ludics and Web: Another Reading of Standard Operations. In A. Lecomte & S. Tronçon (Eds.), Ludics, Dialogue and Interaction: PRELUDE Project - 2006-2009. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 58–77). 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 Identities.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 22). Windy Weather Discovered in Young Planetary System. 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. (2001). Public Assistance: PARIS Project Can Help States Reduce Improper Benefit Payments (GAO-01-935). 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

Mehmeti, A. (2010). Intensive dramaturgical research facilitated the creation of the character Soran Saleen in “The Poetry of Pizza” [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Salms-Moss, S. (2016, January 7). Absolutely Final Delivery. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szidat, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Martin & Hosken, 2003; Szidat, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Martin & Hosken, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Szenker-Ravi et al., 2018)

About the journal

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