How to format your references using the The Journal of Social Studies Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Social Studies Research. 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

Long, M. D. (2015). GEOPHYSICS. How mountains get made. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6249), 687–688.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crida, A., & Charnoz, S. (2012). Formation of regular satellites from ancient massive rings in the solar system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6111), 1196–1199.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runnels, L. W., Yue, L., & Clapham, D. E. (2001). TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5506), 1043–1047.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Morisset, S., Rouleau, A., Ligneau, X., Gbahou, F., Tardivel-Lacombe, J., Stark, H., Schunack, W., Ganellin, C. R., Schwartz, J. C., & Arrang, J. M. (2000). High constitutive activity of native H3 receptors regulates histamine neurons in brain. Nature, 408(6814), 860–864.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mamishev, A., & Williams, S. (2010). Technical Writing for Teams. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kalra, M. K., Saini, S., & Rubin, G. D. (Eds.). (2008). MDCT: From Protocols to Practice. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz, D. D., Axelrad, M. E., & Hilliard, M. E. (2015). Interventions to Promote Adherence: Innovations in Behavior Change Strategies. In M. E. Axelrad (Ed.), Healthcare Partnerships for Pediatric Adherence: Promoting Collaborative Management for Pediatric Chronic Illness Care (pp. 51–62). 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 The Journal of Social Studies Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 25). What Would Happen If The Planet Stopped Spinning? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-would-happen-if-planet-stopped-spinning/

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. (1989). Compensatory Education: Aguilar v. Felton Decision’s Continuing Impact on Chapter 1 Program (HRD-89-131BR). 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

MacKinder, M. (2010). Max the Knife, Salesman [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Taggart, J., & Granville, K. (2017, April 15). How We Shop: Past, Present Future. New York Times, BU4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Long, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Crida & Charnoz, 2012; Long, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Crida & Charnoz, 2012)
Three authors: (Runnels et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Morisset et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Social Studies Research
ISSN (print)	0885-985X
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education

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