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

Hwang, William C. 2009. “Journal Club. A Structural Biologist Has Great Expectations for Llamas’ Small Antibodies.” Nature 459(7245):303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang, Jeomshik, and Ellen R. M. Druffel. 2003. “Lipid-like Material as the Source of the Uncharacterized Organic Carbon in the Ocean?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299(5608):881–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finn, C. A., T. W. Sisson, and M. Deszcz-Pan. 2001. “Aerogeophysical Measurements of Collapse-Prone Hydrothermally Altered Zones at Mount Rainier Volcano.” Nature 409(6820):600–603.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schofield, Paul N., Janan Eppig, Eva Huala, Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Mark Harvey, Duncan Davidson, Tom Weaver, Steve Brown, Damian Smedley, Nadia Rosenthal, Klaus Schughart, Vassilis Aidinis, Glauco Tocchini-Valentini, and John M. Hancock. 2010. “Research Funding. Sustaining the Data and Bioresource Commons.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330(6004):592–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Labuszewski, John W., John E. Nyhoff, Richard Co, and Paul E. Peterson. 2010. The CME Group Risk Management Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nakasato, Yuri, and Raymond L. Yung, eds. 2011. Geriatric Rheumatology: A Comprehensive Approach. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Mu, and Heng Yin. 2016. “Automatic Generation of Vulnerability-Specific Patches for Preventing Component Hijacking Attacks.” Pp. 45–61 in Android Application Security: A Semantics and Context-Aware Approach, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, edited by H. Yin. 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 Teaching Sociology.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “SpaceX Wins Permission To Launch Government Satellites.” IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018 (https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-wins-permission-launch-government-satellites/).

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. 2011. Information Technology: OMB Needs to Improve Its Guidance on IT Investments. GAO-11-826. 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

Tajer, Seyed Ali. 2010. “Topics in MIMO Networks.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Koblin, John, and Nick Corasaniti. 2017. “One Nation, Under Fox.” New York Times, March 25, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hwang 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang 2009; Hwang and Druffel 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hwang and Druffel 2003)
Three authors: (Finn, Sisson, and Deszcz-Pan 2001)
4 or more authors: (Schofield et al. 2010)

About the journal

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