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]

McNab BK. Metabolism: ecology shapes bird bioenergetics. Nature 2003;426:620–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang Y, Hekimi S. Mitochondrial dysfunction and longevity in animals: Untangling the knot. Science 2015;350:1204–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yu Y-TN, Yuan X, Velicer GJ. Adaptive evolution of an sRNA that controls Myxococcus development. Science 2010;328:993.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Weisberg JM, Johnston S, Koribalski B, Stanimirovic S. Discovery of pulsed OH maser emission stimulated by a pulsar. Science 2005;309:106–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mullaney MD. The Complete Guide to Option Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Águeda Marujo H, Neto LM, editors. Positive Nations and Communities: Collective, Qualitative and Cultural-Sensitive Processes in Positive Psychology. vol. 6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vujanic GM. Pathology of Renal Tumours of Childhood. In: Pritchard-Jones K, Dome JS, editors. Renal Tumors of Childhood: Biology and Therapy, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 53–76.

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 E. Higher IQ Linked To Reduced Risk of Schizophrenia. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/higher-iq-linked-reduced-risk-schizophrenia/ (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. Special Education: Federal Actions Can Assist States in Improving Postsecondary Outcomes for Youth. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sener AC. Uncertainty analysis of geothermal energy economics. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: No Choosing Alphabets. New York Times 2004:A6.

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