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

Carlson, Richard W. 2002. “Geology. Osmium Remembers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296(5567):475–77.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strahl, B. D., and C. D. Allis. 2000. “The Language of Covalent Histone Modifications.” Nature 403(6765):41–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rannou, P., F. Hourdin, and C. P. McKay. 2002. “A Wind Origin for Titan’s Haze Structure.” Nature 418(6900):853–56.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Petrushanko, Irina Yu, Vladimir A. Mitkevich, Anastasia A. Anashkina, Elizaveta A. Klimanova, Elena A. Dergousova, Olga D. Lopina, and Alexander A. Makarov. 2014. “Critical Role of γ-Phosphate in Structural Transition of Na,K-ATPase upon ATP Binding.” Scientific Reports 4:5165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuel, G. Robello. 2010. Formulas and Calculations for Drilling Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lukowicz, Paul, Lothar Thiele, and Gerhard Tröster, eds. 2007. Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2007: 20th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, March 12-15, 2007. Proceedings. Vol. 4415. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rauscher, Andreas. 2013. “Scoring Play – Soundtracks and Video Game Genres.” Pp. 93–105 in Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, edited by P. Moormann. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Study Reveals Bizarre Deep-Sea Hunting Methods of Humpback Whales.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-reveals-bizarre-deep-sea-hunting-methods-humpback-whales/).

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. 1970. Utilization of the United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter Fleet. B-114851. 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

Cao, Qing. 2013. “East Asian Backpacker Tourists’ Motivations for Participating in Backpacking.” 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

Simonson, John. 2017. “Nothing Is Free.” New York Times, September 25, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carlson 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Carlson 2002; Strahl and Allis 2000).

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

Two authors: (Strahl and Allis 2000)
Three authors: (Rannou, Hourdin, and McKay 2002)
4 or more authors: (Petrushanko et al. 2014)

About the journal

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