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

Park, R. W. (2014). Anthropology. Stories of Arctic colonization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6200), 1004–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stixrude, L., & Karki, B. (2005). Structure and freezing of MgSiO3 liquid in Earth’s lower mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5746), 297–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, F., Chen, X., & Vitousek, P. (2013). Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world. Nature, 497(7447), 33–35.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Farber, S. A., Pack, M., Ho, S. Y., Johnson, I. D., Wagner, D. S., Dosch, R., Mullins, M. C., Hendrickson, H. S., Hendrickson, E. K., & Halpern, M. E. (2001). Genetic analysis of digestive physiology using fluorescent phospholipid reporters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5520), 1385–1388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy, R. (2010). Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bichurin, M. (2014). Modeling of Magnetoelectric Effects in Composites (V. Petrov, Ed.; Vol. 201). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, S. (2013). Laziness by Need. In M. Felleisen & P. Gardner (Eds.), Programming Languages and Systems: 22nd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 81–100). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, April 1). Anti-Aging Study Sees Much-Needed Affirmation. 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. (1989). Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force (T-RCED-89-44). 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

Ishutov, S. (2013). Tectonic characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach fault, offshore southern California [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

Minder, R., & Callimachi, R. (2017, August 19). Officials Hunting for a Moroccan Man in the Barcelona Attack Investigation. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Park, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Park, 2014; Stixrude & Karki, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Stixrude & Karki, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Farber et al., 2001)

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