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

Bartels-Rausch, T. (2013). Chemistry: Ten things we need to know about ice and snow. Nature, 494(7435), 27–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kodama, R., & Fast-Ignitor Consortium. (2002). Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition. Nature, 418(6901), 933–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Church, J. A., White, N. J., & Arblaster, J. M. (2005). Significant decadal-scale impact of volcanic eruptions on sea level and ocean heat content. Nature, 438(7064), 74–77.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Biondi, E. G., Reisinger, S. J., Skerker, J. M., Arif, M., Perchuk, B. S., Ryan, K. R., & Laub, M. T. (2006). Regulation of the bacterial cell cycle by an integrated genetic circuit. Nature, 444(7121), 899–904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kolb, R. W. (2011). Sovereign Debt. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Müller, M. (Ed.). (2014). Polyelectrolyte Complexes in the Dispersed and Solid State II: Application Aspects (Vol. 256). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Messina, G., Biressi, S., & Cossu, G. (2008). Non Muscle Stem Cells and Muscle Regeneration. In T. Partridge (Ed.), Skeletal Muscle Repair and Regeneration (pp. 65–84). Springer Netherlands.

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

Evans, K. (2016, July 12). Here’s The Easiest Way To Undo The Harms Of Sitting All Day. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-the-easiest-way-to-undo-the-harms-of-sitting-all-day/

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). Information Technology Investment Management: An Overview of GAO’s Assessment Framework (Exposure Draft) (AIMD-00-155). 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

Koller, R. J. (2014). The nonlinear relationship of individual commitment to organizational change and behavioral support [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Meacham, J. (2016, October 15). The Grace of George H.W. Bush. New York Times, SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bartels-Rausch, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bartels-Rausch, 2013; Kodama & Fast-Ignitor Consortium, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kodama & Fast-Ignitor Consortium, 2002)
Three authors: (Church et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Biondi 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