How to format your references using the Sociologia Ruralis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sociologia Ruralis. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stone, R. (2000) EASTERN EUROPE: Serbian University Law Causes Turmoil. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5492), 691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rykaczewski, R.R., & Dunne, J.P. (2011) A measured look at ocean chlorophyll trends. Nature, 472(7342), E5-6; discussion E8-9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whittier, S.K., Hengge, A.C., & Loria, J.P. (2013) Conformational motions regulate phosphoryl transfer in related protein tyrosine phosphatases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6148), 899–903.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saikawa, Y., Hashimoto, K., Nakata, M., Yoshihara, M., Nagai, K., Ida, M., & Komiya, T. (2004) Pigment chemistry: the red sweat of the hippopotamus. Nature, 429(6990), 363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caltagirone, J.-P. (2015) Discrete Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sun, X.-H., Qu, W., Stojmenovic, I., Zhou, W., Li, Z., Guo, H., Min, G., Yang, T., Wu, Y., & Liu, L. (Eds.) (2014) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 14th International Conference, ICA3PP 2014, Dalian, China, August 24-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Scatena, R., Bottoni, P., & Giardina, B. (2009) Cellular Respiration and Dedifferentiation. In: Sarangarajan, R. & Apte, S. (Eds.), Cellular Respiration and Carcinogenesis. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, pp. 45–54.

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 Sociologia Ruralis.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017) Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/top-republicans-propose-carbon-tax-plan-stop-climate-change/ [Accessed 30th October 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 (1998) FAA Systems: Serious Challenges Remain in Resolving Year 2000 and Computer Security Problems. (No. T-AIMD-98-251). 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

Jozwiak, A.L. (2012) Social work internship stipend program: A grant proposal. (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Hollander, S. (2000) Capriati Moves On, Calmly. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stone, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rykaczewski & Dunne, 2011; Stone, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Rykaczewski & Dunne, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Saikawa et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sociologia Ruralis
ISSN (print)	0038-01991467-9523
Scope