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

Finkelstein, J. (2009). Metalloproteins. Nature, 460(7257), 813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bromm, V., & Loeb, A. (2003). The formation of the first low-mass stars from gas with low carbon and oxygen abundances. Nature, 425(6960), 812–814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tenenbaum, J. B., de Silva, V., & Langford, J. C. (2000). A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5500), 2319–2323.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chelton, D. B., Schlax, M. G., Freilich, M. H., & Milliff, R. F. (2004). Satellite measurements reveal persistent small-scale features in ocean winds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5660), 978–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peters, M., Glasser, D., Hildebrandt, D., & Kauchali, S. (2011). Membrane Process Design Using Residue Curve Maps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Górka, J. (Ed.). (2016). Transforming Payment Systems in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Ray, D., & Bradford, P. (2007). An Integrated System for Insider Threat Detection. In P. Craiger & S. Shenoi (Eds.), Advances in Digital Forensics III: IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics, National Centre for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, January 28-January 31, 2007 (pp. 75–86). 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 Influence.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, November 9). Austrian State Now Produces 100% Of Electricity From Renewables. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/austrian-state-produces-100-electricity-renewables0/

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. (1994). International Aviation: New Competitive Conditions Require Changes in DOT Strategy (T-RCED-94-194). 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

Joshi, R. A. (2010). Adaptive nulling in multiple beam antennas using quantized state adaptive algorithms [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2015, February 22). From ‘Rocket Girl’ to Karaoke Superstar. New York Times, MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkelstein, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bromm & Loeb, 2003; Finkelstein, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bromm & Loeb, 2003)
Three authors: (Tenenbaum et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Chelton et al., 2004)

About the journal

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