How to format your references using the Social Studies of Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Studies of Science. 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	Download the output style file
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

Goldstein RH (2001) Paleoenvironment. Clues from fluid inclusions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294(5544): 1009–1011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Udvardi MK and Scheible W-R (2005) Plant science. GRAS genes and the symbiotic green revolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308(5729): 1749–1750.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki T, Asami M and Perry ACF (2014) Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Scientific reports 4: 7621.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bradley RS, Vuille M, Diaz HF, et al. (2006) Climate change. Threats to water supplies in the tropical Andes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312(5781): 1755–1756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros N, Diakoumopoulou E, Ioannidis I, et al. (2006) Diabetes in Clinical Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Murty MR (2014) Transcendental Numbers (ed. P Rath). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharma S, Gupta R, Dugar G, et al. (2012) Impact of Application of Biofertilizers on Soil Structure and Resident Microbial Community Structure and Function. In: Maheshwari DK (ed.) Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Probiotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 65–77.

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 Studies of Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Probiotic Bacteria May Help Reduce Anxiety And Boost Memory Performance. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/probiotic-bacteria-may-help-reduce-anxiety-and-boost-memory-performance/ (accessed 30 October 2018).

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 (1994) Welfare to Work: JOBS Automated Systems Do Not Focus on Program’s Employment Objective. AIMD-94-44, 8 June. Washington, DC: 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

Wolzinger R (2010) Strengthening Career and Technical Education in the California Community College System during the financial and labor market crisis. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Johnson G (2015) Turning Nature Against Cancer. New York Times, 19 May.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldstein, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Goldstein, 2001; Udvardi and Scheible, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Udvardi and Scheible, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bradley et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Studies of Science
Abbreviation	Soc. Stud. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0306-3127
ISSN (online)	1460-3659
Scope	History History and Philosophy of Science General Social Sciences