How to format your references using the Socio-Economic Planning Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 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

[1]

Glass L. Obituary: Arthur T. Winfree (1942-2002). Nature 2003;421:34.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maheshwari V, Saraf RF. High-resolution thin-film device to sense texture by touch. Science 2006;312:1501–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Adkins JF, McIntyre K, Schrag DP. The salinity, temperature, and delta18O of the glacial deep ocean. Science 2002;298:1769–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Husmann A, Betts JB, Boebinger GS, Migliori A, Rosenbaum TF, Saboungi M-L. Megagauss sensors. Nature 2002;417:421–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kulkarni S, Harman G. An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: Kulkarni/Statistical Learning Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Gause WC, Artis D, editors. The Th2 Type Immune Response in Health and Disease: From Host Defense and Allergy to Metabolic Homeostasis and Beyond. 1st ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Deng J, Chen Z, Nath R. Impact of Kilo-Voltage Cone Beam Computed Tomography on Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer. In: Dössel O, Schlegel WC, editors. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/1 Radiation Oncology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 17–20.

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 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Five Little-Known Diseases To Watch Out For In 2017. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/five-littleknown-diseases-to-watch-out-for-in-2017/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. IT Supply Chain: Additional Efforts Needed by National Security-Related Agencies to Address Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Myers RE. Moderating the effectiveness of messages to promote physical activity in type 2 diabetes. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2010.

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

[1]

Schilling MK. Simply Grand. New York Times 2016:M2218.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Abbreviation	Socioecon. Plann. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0038-0121
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Economics and Econometrics Geography, Planning and Development