How to format your references using the Sociology of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sociology of Education. 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

Deshaies, Raymond J. 2014. “Structural Biology: Corralling a Protein-Degradation Regulator.” Nature 512(7513):145–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu, Xiangang, and Qixing Zhou. 2014. “Novel Hydrated Graphene Ribbon Unexpectedly Promotes Aged Seed Germination and Root Differentiation.” Scientific Reports 4:3782.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hasty, Jeff, David McMillen, and J. J. Collins. 2002. “Engineered Gene Circuits.” Nature 420(6912):224–30.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shenoy, S. K., P. H. McDonald, T. A. Kohout, and R. J. Lefkowitz. 2001. “Regulation of Receptor Fate by Ubiquitination of Activated Beta 2-Adrenergic Receptor and Beta-Arrestin.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294(5545):1307–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Muccini, Michele, and Stefano Toffanin. 2016. Organic Light-Emitting Transistors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grossweiner, Leonard I. 2005. The Science of Phototherapy: An Introduction. edited by J. B. Grossweiner, B. H. Gerald Rogers, and L. R. Jones. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Klawitter, Christina. 2008. “Making the Most of Your Undergraduate Experience.” Pp. 1–6 in Careers in Food Science: From Undergraduate to Professional, edited by R. W. Hartel and C. P. Klawitter. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Sociology of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Nanotechnology To Outer Space: Ten Top Tech Innovations Of 2014.” 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. 1993. Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Status. NSIAD-93-258R. 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

Warren, Kathryn Lloyd. 2014. “Agents of Change: A New Role for Learners in Online Workplace Training.” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. “Kerber Encounters a Pliskova Test, but Not the Usual One.” New York Times, January 19, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Deshaies 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Deshaies 2014; Hu and Zhou 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hu and Zhou 2014)
Three authors: (Hasty, McMillen, and Collins 2002)
4 or more authors: (Shenoy et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sociology of Education
Abbreviation	Sociol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0038-0407
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science