How to format your references using the Social Movement Studies citation style

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

Green, H. W., 2nd. (2001). Plate tectonics. A graveyard for buoyant slabs? Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5526), 2445–2446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Armand, M., & Tarascon, J.-M. (2008). Building better batteries. Nature, 451(7179), 652–657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Echtay, K. S., Winkler, E., & Klingenberg, M. (2000). Coenzyme Q is an obligatory cofactor for uncoupling protein function. Nature, 408(6812), 609–613.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, Z., Appenzeller, J., Lin, Y.-M., Sippel-Oakley, J., Rinzler, A. G., Tang, J., Wind, S. J., Solomon, P. M., & Avouris, P. (2006). An integrated logic circuit assembled on a single carbon nanotube. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5768), 1735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schober, H. (2015). Transparent Shells. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Dai, M. (Ed.). (2011). Innovative Computing and Information: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 231). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hermans, F., Pinzger, M., & van Deursen, A. (2010). Automatically Extracting Class Diagrams from Spreadsheets. In T. D’Hondt (Ed.), ECOOP 2010 – Object-Oriented Programming: 24th European Conference, Maribor, Slovenia, June 21-25, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 52–75). 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 Movement Studies.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, November 16). How One Bird Got Three Such Different-Looking Males. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-one-bird-got-three-such-different-looks/

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. (1995). General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (AA-95-33(4)). 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

Lynch, L. E. (2013). Financial regulation and economic performance: A descriptive correlation study of American financial institutions [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Barron, J. (2016, August 27). The Lost Battle That Helped Win the Revolution. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Green, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Armand & Tarascon, 2008; Green, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Armand & Tarascon, 2008)
Three authors: (Echtay et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Chen et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Movement Studies
Abbreviation	Soc. Mov. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1474-2837
ISSN (online)	1474-2829
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies