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

Vernes, S. C. (2014). Genome wide identification of fruitless targets suggests a role in upregulating genes important for neural circuit formation. Scientific Reports, 4, 4412.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacobs, H. O., & Whitesides, G. M. (2001). Submicrometer patterning of charge in thin-film electrets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5509), 1763–1766.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaucher, E. A., Govindarajan, S., & Ganesh, O. K. (2008). Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins. Nature, 451(7179), 704–707.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Takamoto, D. Y., Aydil, E., Zasadzinski, J. A., Ivanova, A. T., Schwartz, D. K., Yang, T., & Cremer, P. S. (2001). Stable ordering in Langmuir-Blodgett films. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5533), 1292–1295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanlari, R., & Fard, M. S. (2015). FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Crisan, D. (Ed.). (2011). Stochastic Analysis 2010. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bartholin, L., Vincent, D. F., & Valcourt, U. (2013). TGF-β as Tumor Suppressor: In Vitro Mechanistic Aspects of Growth Inhibition. In A. Moustakas & K. Miyazawa (Eds.), TGF-β in Human Disease (pp. 113–138). Springer Japan.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 8). What’s Hiding Underneath Jupiter’s Clouds? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-s-hiding-underneath-jupiter-s-clouds/

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. (1992). Student Financial Aid: Most Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants Are Awarded to Needy Students (HRD-92-47). 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

Volle, M. (2017). Exploring the relationship of meetings to organizational culture and values [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2012, January 8). Head of Russian Church Says Leaders Must Listen to Protests. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vernes, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Jacobs & Whitesides, 2001; Vernes, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jacobs & Whitesides, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Takamoto et al., 2001)

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