How to format your references using the Teaching Sociology citation style

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

Pendry, J. B. 2007. “Physics. Negative Refraction for Electrons?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5816):1226–27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouwens, Rychard J., and Garth D. Illingworth. 2006. “Rapid Evolution of the Most Luminous Galaxies during the First 900 Million Years.” Nature 443(7108):189–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childers, Susan E., Stacy Ciufo, and Derek R. Lovley. 2002. “Geobacter Metallireducens Accesses Insoluble Fe(III) Oxide by Chemotaxis.” Nature 416(6882):767–69.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Park, Daeho, Annie-Carole Tosello-Trampont, Michael R. Elliott, Mingjian Lu, Lisa B. Haney, Zhong Ma, Alexander L. Klibanov, James W. Mandell, and Kodi S. Ravichandran. 2007. “BAI1 Is an Engulfment Receptor for Apoptotic Cells Upstream of the ELMO/Dock180/Rac Module.” Nature 450(7168):430–34.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Landragin, Frédéric. 2013. Man-Machine Dialogue. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Itenberg, Ilia, Burglind Jöricke, and Mikael Passare, eds. 2012. Perspectives in Analysis, Geometry, and Topology: On the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Oleg Viro. Vol. 296. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Goedertier, Stijn, Christophe Mues, and Jan Vanthienen. 2007. “Specifying Process-Aware Access Control Rules in SBVR.” Pp. 39–52 in Advances in Rule Interchange and Applications: International Symposium, RuleML 2007, Orlando, Florida, October 25-26, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by A. Paschke and Y. Biletskiy. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Teaching Sociology.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “The Most Incredible Meteor Shower In A Decade Will Peak This Week.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 (https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-perseid-meteor-shower-will-be-even-more-amazing-than-usual-next-week/).

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. 1994. Highway Planning: Agencies Are Attempting to Expedite Environmental Reviews, but Barriers Remain. RCED-94-211. 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

Ahn, Misook. 2017. “Student Perception of Language Achievement and Learner Autonomy in a Blended Korean Language Course: The Case Study of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Soloski, Alexis. 2017. “As Battered as Job, He Bills by the Hour.” New York Times, February 28, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pendry 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bouwens and Illingworth 2006; Pendry 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bouwens and Illingworth 2006)
Three authors: (Childers, Ciufo, and Lovley 2002)
4 or more authors: (Park et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Teaching Sociology
Abbreviation	Teach. Sociol.
ISSN (print)	0092-055X
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science