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

Boyle, P. (2013). Social science. A U.K. view on the U.S. attack on social sciences. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6147), 719.

A journal article with 2 authors

Duffy, P. E., & Fried, M. (2001). Biomedicine. Turncoat antibodies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5537), 2009–2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lekic, V., French, S. W., & Fischer, K. M. (2011). Lithospheric thinning beneath rifted regions of Southern California. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6057), 783–787.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yin, Y., Rioux, R. M., Erdonmez, C. K., Hughes, S., Somorjai, G. A., & Alivisatos, A. P. (2004). Formation of hollow nanocrystals through the nanoscale Kirkendall effect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5671), 711–714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen, S., & Huang, P. (2011). Principles of Tribology. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Birkhofer, H. (Ed.). (2011). The Future of Design Methodology. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Babbar, N., & Gerner, E. W. (2011). Targeting Polyamines and Inflammation for Cancer Prevention. In H.-J. Senn & F. Otto (Eds.), Clinical Cancer Prevention (pp. 49–64). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Indicators Research.

Blog post

Felton, J. (2017, June 14). Video: The Moment A Frilled-Neck Lizard Attacks An 18-Year-Old Trying To Help It. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/video-the-moment-a-frilledneck-lizard-attacks-an-18yearold-trying-to-help-it/. 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. (1989). Battlefield Automation: Field Artillery Data Systems Acquisition Problems and Budget Impacts (No. NSIAD-89-95BR). 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

Bailey, S. M. (2008). Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Harris, E. A. (2014, June 5). Walking Away, Quietly. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyle 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Boyle 2013; Duffy and Fried 2001).

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

Two authors: (Duffy and Fried 2001)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al. 2004)

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