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]

Koenig R. IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iranian Women Hear the Call of Science. Science 2000;290:1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Haiser HJ, Turnbaugh PJ. Is it time for a metagenomic basis of therapeutics? Science 2012;336:1253–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Raff MC, Whitmore AV, Finn JT. Axonal self-destruction and neurodegeneration. Science 2002;296:868–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Montoya D, Zavala MA, Rodríguez MA, Purves DW. Animal versus wind dispersal and the robustness of tree species to deforestation. Science 2008;320:1502–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kovalev VA. Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Althoff K-D, Dengel A, Bergmann R, Nick M, Roth-Berghofer T, editors. Professional Knowledge Management: Third Biennial Conference, WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 3782. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kammueller F. A Security Model for Functional Active Objects. In: Cipolla-Ficarra F, Veltman K, Cipolla-Ficarra M, Kratky A, editors. Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems: First International Symposium, CCGIDIS 2011, Córdoba, Spain, June 28-29, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 42–50.

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]

Hale T. Sex Toys Contain Less Dangerous Chemicals Than Children’s Toys. IFLScience 2017.

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. Financial Management: NASA’s Financial Reports Are Based on Unreliable Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Daum MA. Busy Fingers, Wordless Thoughts: Entering the Knot of Compulsive Hair Twisting. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2012.

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]

Cain S. Followers Wanted. New York Times 2017:SR1.

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