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

Abbott, A. (2003). Human fatality adds fresh impetus to fight against bird flu. Nature, 423(6935), 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roediger, H. L., 3rd, & DeSoto, K. A. (2014). Cognitive psychology. Forgetting the presidents. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6213), 1106–1109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whittington, A. G., Hofmeister, A. M., & Nabelek, P. I. (2009). Temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity of the Earth’s crust and implications for magmatism. Nature, 458(7236), 319–321.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lyle, J. M., Bullitt, E., Bienz, K., & Kirkegaard, K. (2002). Visualization and functional analysis of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase lattices. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5576), 2218–2222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adams, D. J., Dyson, P. J., & Tavener, S. J. (2005). Chemistry in Alternative Reaction Media. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Klug, C., Korn, D., De Baets, K., Kruta, I., & Mapes, R. H. (Eds.). (2015). Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 43). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lipinski, P., Puchala, D., Wosiak, A., & Byczkowska-Lipinska, L. (2008). Transformer Monitoring System Taking Advantage of Hybrid Wavelet Fourier Transform. In S. Wiak, A. Krawczyk, & I. Dolezel (Eds.), Intelligent Computer Techniques in Applied Electromagnetics (pp. 31–36). 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

Luntz, S. (2016, December 29). Wind Farms Are Probably Good For Nearby Crops. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/wind-farms-are-probably-good-for-nearby-crops/

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. (2002). Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Status, Plans, and Future Data Management Challenges (GAO-02-684T). 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

Frieberg, A. (2008). The Project of Reconciliation: Journalists and religious activists in Polish -German relations, 1956–1972 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Burghardt, L. F. (2008, July 20). ‘Traffic Calming’ Theory Can Provoke a Storm. New York Times, LI5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Roediger & DeSoto, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Roediger & DeSoto, 2014)
Three authors: (Whittington et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Lyle et al., 2002)

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