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

Jiggins, C. D. (2014). Evolutionary biology: Radiating genomes. Nature, 513(7518), 318–319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reichenbach, A., & Pannicke, T. (2008). Neuroscience. A new glance at glia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5902), 693–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khatiwala, S., Primeau, F., & Hall, T. (2009). Reconstruction of the history of anthropogenic CO(2) concentrations in the ocean. Nature, 462(7271), 346–349.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shin, D., Lee, E.-J., Huang, H., & Groisman, E. A. (2006). A positive feedback loop promotes transcription surge that jump-starts Salmonella virulence circuit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5805), 1607–1609.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bagrintseva, K. I. (2015). Carbonate Reservoir Rocks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Reichow, B., Boyd, B. A., Barton, E. E., & Odom, S. L. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of Early Childhood Special Education. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sauer, B., & Ajanovic, E. (2016). Hegemonic Discourses of Difference and Inequality: Right-Wing Organisations in Austria. In G. Lazaridis, G. Campani, & A. Benveniste (Eds.), The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and “Othering” (pp. 81–108). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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

Fang, J. (2015, March 23). Women Were Out Reproducing Men 4,000 Years Ago. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/women-were-out-reproducing-men-4000-years-ago/

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. (1995). Nonimmigrant Visa Processing (NSIAD-95-122R). 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

Kyriacou, A. (2011). A method of verification of the total treatment time for the APBI (Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) devices: Contura Multilumen Balloon and SAVI applicator [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Crawford, S. (2014, April 28). The Wire Next Time. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jiggins, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Jiggins, 2014; Reichenbach & Pannicke, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Reichenbach & Pannicke, 2008)
Three authors: (Khatiwala et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Shin et al., 2006)

About the journal

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