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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Heuser, J. (2003) ‘Retrospective. “My Little Spontaneous Blips”’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 300, 1248.
A journal article with 2 authors
Nacher, J. C. and Akutsu, T. (2013) ‘Structural Controllability of Unidirectional Bipartite Networks’, Scientific reports, 3, 1647.
A journal article with 3 authors
Gandía-Herrero, F., García-Carmona, F. and Escribano, J. (2005) ‘Botany: Floral Fluorescence Effect’, Nature, 437, 334.
A journal article with 99 or more authors
Gandon, S., Mackinnon, M. J., Nee, S. and Read, A. F. (2001) ‘Imperfect Vaccines and the Evolution of Pathogen Virulence’, Nature, 414, 751–756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Dimond, B. (2010) Legal Aspects of Occupational Therapy, Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell.
An edited book
Dart, J. and Wagg, S. (eds) (2016) Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK.
A chapter in an edited book
Weirich, S. and Casinghino, C. (2012) ‘Generic Programming with Dependent Types’. In Gibbons, J. (ed) Generic and Indexed Programming: International Spring School, SSGIP 2010, Oxford, UK, March 22-26, 2010, Revised Lectures, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 217–258.

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) ‘Biggest Map Of Giant Voids And Clusters In The Universe Solves Major Cosmological Puzzle’, IFLScience, accessed at https://www.iflscience.com/space/biggest-map-of-giant-voids-and-clusters-in-the-universe-solves-major-cosmological-puzzle/ 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 (1995) Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments, 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
Bennett, J. L. (2013) An Examination of Therapeutic Recreation Programs for Veterans with Combat-Related Disabilities and Their Families, 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
Shpigel, B. (2017) ‘Rangers Even Series With Emphatic Win as Lindberg Scores Twice’, New York Times ( 5 May 2017).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heuser, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Heuser, 2003; Nacher and Akutsu, 2013).

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

  • Two authors: (Nacher and Akutsu, 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Gandon et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleSocio-Economic Review
AbbreviationSocioecon. Rev.
ISSN (print)1475-1461
ISSN (online)1475-147X
ScopeGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Sociology and Political Science

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