How to format your references using the Social Influence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Influence. 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

Ahmed, F. (2010). Health: Edible advice. Nature, 468(7327), S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mabuchi, H., & Doherty, A. C. (2002). Cavity quantum electrodynamics: coherence in context. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5597), 1372–1377.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thompson, J. K., Peterson, M. R., & Freeman, R. D. (2003). Single-neuron activity and tissue oxygenation in the cerebral cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5609), 1070–1072.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Angelini, A., Barakat, E., Munzert, P., Boarino, L., De Leo, N., Enrico, E., Giorgis, F., Herzig, H. P., Pirri, C. F., & Descrovi, E. (2014). Focusing and extraction of light mediated by Bloch surface waves. Scientific Reports, 4, 5428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raghavan, V. (2016). Combustion Technology. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nagnibeda, E. (2009). Non-Equilibrium Reacting Gas Flows: Kinetic Theory of Transport and Relaxation Processes (E. Kustova, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Arfaa, J., & Wang, Y. (2014). A Usability Study on Elder Adults Utilizing Social Networking Sites. In A. Marcus (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience Design for Diverse Interaction Platforms and Environments: Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 50–61). Springer International Publishing.

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 Influence.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 23). Rosetta’s Comet Now Shedding Significantly More Water Into Space. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-s-comet-now-shedding-significantly-more-water-space/

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. (2007). Emergency Management: Most School Districts Have Developed Emergency Management Plans, but Would Benefit from Additional Federal Guidance (GAO-07-609). 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

VanQuickenborne, T. (2010). Exploring generative change [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, May 26). Is It Wrong to Body Slam a Journalist? These Days, Opinions Vary. 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 (Ahmed, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ahmed, 2010; Mabuchi & Doherty, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Mabuchi & Doherty, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Angelini et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Influence
Abbreviation	Soc. Influ.
ISSN (print)	1553-4510
ISSN (online)	1553-4529
Scope	Social Psychology