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

Pan, J. (2009). China expects leadership from rich nations. Nature, 461(7267), 1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mendelson, T. C., & Shaw, K. L. (2005). Sexual behaviour: rapid speciation in an arthropod. Nature, 433(7024), 375–376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holt, B. F., 3rd, Belkhadir, Y., & Dangl, J. L. (2005). Antagonistic control of disease resistance protein stability in the plant immune system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5736), 929–932.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Weiss, B. P., Berdahl, J. S., Elkins-Tanton, L., Stanley, S., Lima, E. A., & Carporzen, L. (2008). Magnetism on the angrite parent body and the early differentiation of planetesimals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5902), 713–716.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodman, G. B. (2014). Why Cultural Studies? John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wanninger, A. (Ed.). (2015). Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 6: Deuterostomia (1st ed. 2015). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, S. J., & Diamond, B. (2015). Endogenous Control of Dendritic Cell Activation by miRNA. In C. M. Greene (Ed.), MicroRNAs and Other Non-Coding RNAs in Inflammation (pp. 85–103). 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

Fang, J. (2014, September 23). Ancient Campfire Conversations Strengthened Human Culture. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2000). Army Corps of Engineers: An Assessment of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement of the Lower Snake River Dams (RCED-00-186). 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

Linsenmeyer, J. P. (2017). A Nice Place to Live and Work: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Residential Life Living-Learning Community and Employment Model at a Top-Tier Midwestern University [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, March 30). Iconic Retailer in Slow Decline. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pan, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mendelson & Shaw, 2005; Pan, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Mendelson & Shaw, 2005)
Three authors: (Holt et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Weiss et al., 2008)

About the journal

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