How to format your references using the Sociological Theory citation style

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

Hamilton, Warren B. 2007. “Comment on ‘A Vestige of Earth’s Oldest Ophiolite.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318(5851):746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 2 authors

van der Goes van Naters, Wynand, and John R. Carlson. 2006. “Insects as Chemosensors of Humans and Crops.” Nature 444(7117):302–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, Simon C., Peter S. Rabinovitch, and Matt Kaeberlein. 2013. “MTOR Is a Key Modulator of Ageing and Age-Related Disease.” Nature 493(7432):338–45.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Xiaoyong, Xiaofan Ren, Keith Kahen, Megan A. Hahn, Manju Rajeswaran, Sara Maccagnano-Zacher, John Silcox, George E. Cragg, Alexander L. Efros, and Todd D. Krauss. 2009. “Non-Blinking Semiconductor Nanocrystals.” Nature 459(7247):686–89.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belsey, Catherine. 2011. A Future for Criticism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Soomere, Tarmo, and Ewald Quak, eds. 2013. Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection: Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Calle, Abel, and Jose Luis Casanova. 2008. “Ozone in the Atmosphere.” Pp. 59–84 in Earth Observation of Global Change: The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in Monitoring the Global Environment, edited by E. Chuvieco. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Theory.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “Granddad The Lungfish, World’s Oldest Aquarium Fish, Dies At Ridiculously Old Age.” 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. 1988. Air Traffic Control: Continued Improvements Needed in FAA’s Management of the NAS Plan. RCED-89-7. 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

Ren, Hanlong. 2014. “Modification and Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Carbons for Resorcinol Removal.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2015. “Bad Math and a Coming Public Pension Crisis.” New York Times, July 9, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hamilton 2007).
This sentence cites two references (van der Goes van Naters and Carlson 2006; Hamilton 2007).

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

Two authors: (van der Goes van Naters and Carlson 2006)
Three authors: (Johnson, Rabinovitch, and Kaeberlein 2013)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sociological Theory
ISSN (print)	0735-2751
Scope	Sociology and Political Science