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

Staveteig, S. E. (2005). Scientists and societies. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Nature, 433(7023), 338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horner, P. J., & Gage, F. H. (2000). Regenerating the damaged central nervous system. Nature, 407(6807), 963–970.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watts, D. J., Dodds, P. S., & Newman, M. E. J. (2002). Identity and search in social networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1302–1305.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pessiglione, M., Seymour, B., Flandin, G., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2006). Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans. Nature, 442(7106), 1042–1045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. (2013). MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2013. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Das, A. (2016). Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal (J. Roy & S. Chakraborti, Eds.; 1st ed. 2016). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

de Albuquerque, J. P., Isenberg, H., Krumm, H., & de Geus, P. L. (2005). Improving the Configuration Management of Large Network Security Systems. In J. Schönwälder & J. Serrat (Eds.), Ambient Networks: 16th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 24-26, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 36–47). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, February 22). Watch Live As NASA Makes A Major Exoplanet Announcement Today. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-nasa-makes-a-major-exoplanet-announcement-today/

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. (2012). To Date, DISH Network Is Cooperating with the Court-Appointed Special Master’s Examination of Its Compliance with the Section 119 Statutory License (GAO-12-496R). 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

Magallanes, J. (2014). Experiences with formal and informal support: A case study of a female-to-male transgender individual [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

Choi, S. (2013, November 10). Vanishing Acts. New York Times, BR25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Staveteig, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Horner & Gage, 2000; Staveteig, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Horner & Gage, 2000)
Three authors: (Watts et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Pessiglione et al., 2006)

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