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

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

Nottebohm, F. (2014) ‘Peter Marler (1928-2014)’, Nature, 512, 372.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horvitz, E. and Mulligan, D. (2015) ‘Policy Forum. Data, Privacy, and the Greater Good’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 349, 253–255.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonderer, L. J., Studart, A. R. and Gauckler, L. J. (2008) ‘Bioinspired Design and Assembly of Platelet Reinforced Polymer Films’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 319, 1069–1073.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Yu, Z., Yang, J., Amalfitano, S., Yu, X. and Liu, L. (2014) ‘Effects of Water Stratification and Mixing on Microbial Community Structure in a Subtropical Deep Reservoir’, Scientific reports, 4, 5821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barton, L. L. and Northup, D. E. (2011) Microbial Ecology, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dan, A., Gittler, F. and Toumani, F. (eds) (2010) Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 Workshops: International Workshops, ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009, Stockholm, Sweden, November 23-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 6275.

A chapter in an edited book

Flesca, S., Furfaro, F. and Parisi, F. (2011) ‘Computing Card-Minimal Repairs’. In Furfaro, F. and Parisi, F. (eds) Repairing and Querying Databases under Aggregate Constraints, New York, NY, Springer, pp. 33–45.

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 Review.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016) ‘Google Used To Ask These Interview Questions, But They’re So Tricky They Were Banned’, IFLScience, accessed at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/google-used-to-ask-these-interview-questions-but-theyre-so-tricky-they-were-banned/ on 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

Government Accountability Office (2009) Federal Student Loans: Audits and Reviews of the Federal Family Education Loan and Federal Direct Loan Programs, 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

Boakyewa, O. A. (2014) Nana Oparebea and the Akonnedi Shrine: Cultural, Religious and Global Agents, Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007) ‘For Justices, Another Day On Detainees’, New York Times ( 3 December 2007).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nottebohm, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nottebohm, 2014; Horvitz and Mulligan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Horvitz and Mulligan, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Socio-Economic Review
Abbreviation	Socioecon. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1475-1461
ISSN (online)	1475-147X
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Sociology and Political Science