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

McNally EM (2012) Genetics: broken giant linked to heart failure. Nature 483(7389): 281–282.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bauleo PM and Martino JR (2009) The dawn of the particle astronomy era in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Nature 458(7240): 847–851.

A journal article with 3 authors

Osawa M, Anderson DE and Erickson HP (2008) Reconstitution of contractile FtsZ rings in liposomes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320(5877): 792–794.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Habenicht A, Olapinski M, Burmeister F, et al. (2005) Jumping nanodroplets. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5743): 2043–2045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa PJ (2017) Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grieco N, Marzegalli M and Paganoni AM (eds) (2013) New Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Organizational Strategies for Acute Coronary Syndromes Patients. Contributions to Statistics. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Taxman FS, Pattavina A, Caudy MS, et al. (2013) The Empirical Basis for the RNR Model with an Updated RNR Conceptual Framework. In: Taxman FS and Pattavina A (eds) Simulation Strategies to Reduce Recidivism: Risk Need Responsivity (RNR) Modeling for the Criminal Justice System. New York, NY: Springer, pp. 73–111.

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

Andrews R (2016) Six Ancient Legends That Are Based On Real Events. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/six-ancient-legends-that-are-based-on-real-events/ (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) Elementary School Children: Many Change Schools Frequently, Harming Their Education. HEHS-94-45, 4 February. 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

Watkins D (2008) The common factors between coaching cultures and transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and high-performance organizational cultures. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Chira S (2017) For Mothers Seeking Office, a Familiar Double Standard. New York Times, 14 March.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNally, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bauleo and Martino, 2009; McNally, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bauleo and Martino, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Habenicht et al., 2005)

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