How to format your references using the The Social Science Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Social Science Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

Hla, T. (2005). Immunology. Dietary factors and immunological consequences. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5741), 1682–1683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf, E. T., & Toon, O. B. (2010). Fractal organic hazes provided an ultraviolet shield for early Earth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5983), 1266–1268.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caro, E., Castellano, M. M., & Gutierrez, C. (2007). A chromatin link that couples cell division to root epidermis patterning in Arabidopsis. Nature, 447(7141), 213–217.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Huber, R., Tauser, F., Brodschelm, A., Bichler, M., Abstreiter, G., & Leitenstorfer, A. (2001). How many-particle interactions develop after ultrafast excitation of an electron-hole plasma. Nature, 414(6861), 286–289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Epperlein, P. W. (2013). Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Patnaik, S., Jain, L. C., Tzafestas, S. G., Resconi, G., & Konar, A. (Eds.). (2005). Innovations in Robot Mobility and Control (Vol. 8). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, Y., Nishida, T., & Thompson, S. E. (2010). Band Structures of Strained Semiconductors. In S. E. Thompson & T. Nishida (Eds.), Strain Effect in Semiconductors: Theory and Device Applications (pp. 51–135). Springer US.

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 Social Science Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017, June 12). Scientists Once Gave LSD To Dolphins In The Hope Of Learning To Communicate With Them. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-once-gave-lsd-to-dolphins-in-the-hope-of-learning-to-communicate-with-them/

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. (2013). TSA Explosives Detection Canine Program: Actions Needed to Analyze Data and Ensure Canine Teams Are Effectively Utilized (GAO-13-239). 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

Myers, R. E. (2010). Moderating the effectiveness of messages to promote physical activity in type 2 diabetes [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Barry, E. (2013, March 6). Dancer Held in Acid Attack on Bolshoi Director. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hla, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hla, 2005; Wolf & Toon, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wolf & Toon, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Huber et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Social Science Journal
Abbreviation	Soc. Sci. J.
ISSN (print)	0362-3319
Scope	Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science