How to format your references using the Social Indicators Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Indicators Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Savchenko, A. (2009). Materials science. Transforming graphene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914), 589–590.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowell, B. B., & Spiegelman, B. M. (2000). Towards a molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis. Nature, 404(6778), 652–660.

A journal article with 3 authors

Obayashi, M., Yoshimitsu, J., & Fukao, Y. (2009). Tearing of stagnant slab. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5931), 1173–1175.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tsukazaki, T., Mori, H., Echizen, Y., Ishitani, R., Fukai, S., Tanaka, T., et al. (2011). Structure and function of a membrane component SecDF that enhances protein export. Nature, 474(7350), 235–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Preber, B. J. (2014). Financial Expert Witness Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cowley, S. J., & Vallée-Tourangeau, F. (Eds.). (2013). Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sofiev, M., Bousquet, J., Linkosalo, T., Ranta, H., Rantio-Lehtimaki, A., Siljamo, P., et al. (2009). Pollen, Allergies and Adaptation. In K. L. Ebi, I. Burton, & G. R. McGregor (Eds.), Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change (pp. 75–106). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Indicators Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 7). Smartphone Microscope Diagnoses Parasitic Worm Infection. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/smartphone-microscope-diagnoses-parasitic-worm-infection/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1992). NASA 5-Year Planning (No. NSIAD-92-155R). 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

Lancaster, G. (2014). Understanding interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Markoff, J. (2016, October 23). As Artificial Intelligence Evolves, So Does Its Criminal Potential. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savchenko 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lowell and Spiegelman 2000; Savchenko 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lowell and Spiegelman 2000)
Three or more authors: (Tsukazaki et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Indicators Research
Abbreviation	Soc. Indic. Res.
ISSN (print)	0303-8300
ISSN (online)	1573-0921
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology General Social Sciences Sociology and Political Science