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

Lindenberger, U. (2014). Human cognitive aging: corriger la fortune? Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6209), 572–578.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubenstein, D. R., & Lovette, I. J. (2009). Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species. Nature, 462(7274), 786–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooks, H. E., Carbin, G. W., & Marsh, P. T. (2014). Increased variability of tornado occurrence in the United States. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6207), 349–352.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Q., Le May, M., Lacroix, N., & Chen, J. (2013). Induction of Pax3 gene expression impedes cardiac differentiation. Scientific reports, 3, 2498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenett, R. S., Zacks, S., & Amberti, D. (2013). Modern Industrial Statistics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gliozzo, A. (2009). Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics. (C. Strapparava, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bowden, R., Ellis, L., Kittler, J., Shevchenko, M., & Windridge, D. (2005). Unsupervised Symbol Grounding and Cognitive Bootstrapping in Cognitive Vision. In F. Roli & S. Vitulano (Eds.), Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2005: 13th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, September 6-8, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 27–36). 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

Andrew, D. (2015, September 27). What Would Happen If You Shot A Gun In Space? IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1974). Need for a National Weather Modification Reseach Program (No. B-133202). 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

Saperstein, A. M. (2009). Susceptibility to smoking and nicotine dependence in schizophrenia (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Witz, B. (2016, September 9). All Kidding Aside, Alderson and Mets Sign Tebow to Minor League Deal. New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lindenberger 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lindenberger 2014; Rubenstein and Lovette 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rubenstein and Lovette 2009)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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