How to format your references using the Social Neuroscience citation style

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

van den Broek, P. (2010). Using texts in science education: cognitive processes and knowledge representation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 453–456.

A journal article with 2 authors

Price, G. D., & Howitt, S. M. (2014). Plant science: Towards turbocharged photosynthesis. Nature, 513(7519), 497–498.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komarneni, S., Kozai, N., & Paulus, W. J. (2001). Environment. Superselective clay for radium uptake. Nature, 410(6830), 771.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Irwin, D. E., Bensch, S., Irwin, J. H., & Price, T. D. (2005). Speciation by distance in a ring species. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5708), 414–416.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ford, I. (2013). Statistical Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bell, G., Warwick, J., & Galbraith, P. (Eds.). (2012). Higher Education Management and Operational Research: Demonstrating New Practices and Metaphors (Vol. 54). SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Kittsteiner, T., & Ockenfels, A. (2008). On the Design of Simple Multi-unit Online Auctions. In H. Gimpel, N. R. Jennings, G. E. Kersten, A. Ockenfels, & C. Weinhardt (Eds.), Negotiation, Auctions, and Market Engineering: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 12-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 68–71). 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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, August 5). Why Is The Sun’s Atmosphere So Much Hotter Than Its Surface? 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. (2011). Training Necessary to Address Data Reliability Issues in NASA Agreement Database and to Minimize Potential Competition with Commercial Sector (GAO-11-552R). 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

Bissell, G. H. (2011). Working in the transference as a multicultural intervention [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Feeney, K. (2006, August 5). No Sawdust, But a Real Pit. New York Times, NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van den Broek, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Price & Howitt, 2014; van den Broek, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Price & Howitt, 2014)
Three authors: (Komarneni et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Irwin et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Soc. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1747-0919
ISSN (online)	1747-0927
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Social Psychology Development