How to format your references using the Sociological Methodology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sociological Methodology. 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

Chapman, Tim. 2003. “Seeing Is Believing.” Nature 425(6960):867–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

D’Anna, G., and G. Gremaud. 2001. “The Jamming Route to the Glass State in Weakly Perturbed Granular Media.” Nature 413(6854):407–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ide, Satoshi, Annemarie Baltay, and Gregory C. Beroza. 2011. “Shallow Dynamic Overshoot and Energetic Deep Rupture in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332(6036):1426–29.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shindell, Drew T., Greg Faluvegi, Dorothy M. Koch, Gavin A. Schmidt, Nadine Unger, and Susanne E. Bauer. 2009. “Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326(5953):716–18.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dixon, C. Scott. 2010. Protestants. Oxford, UK: wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Luch, Andreas, ed. 2012. Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxicology: Volume 3: Environmental Toxicology. Vol. 101. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dasgupta, Amitabha. 2016. “Controversy Over the Availability of Frege’s Sense in Indian Philosophy of Language: The Case of J.L. Shaw and the Nyāya.” Pp. 27–37 in Comparative Philosophy and J.L. Shaw, Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, edited by P. Bilimoria and M. Hemmingsen. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Sociological Methodology.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “Shrimp Proves It’s Hardcore By Taking Down Dragonfish And Gets A Surprise Bonus.” IFLScience. Retrieved 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. 1990. ADP Budget: Potential Reductions to the Department of the Air Force’s Budget Request. IMTEC-90-57BR. 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

Li, Lan. 2012. “Internal Conflicts through External Design: Costuming the Contradictions in ‘The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer.’” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Billard, Mary. 2014. “Sunsets and Pink Dolphins Along the Amazon.” New York Times, April 13, TR12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman 2003; D’Anna and Gremaud 2001).

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

Two authors: (D’Anna and Gremaud 2001)
Three authors: (Ide, Baltay, and Beroza 2011)
4 or more authors: (Shindell et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sociological Methodology
Abbreviation	Sociol. Methodol.
ISSN (print)	0081-1750
Scope	Sociology and Political Science