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

Kampinga, H. H. (2014). Cell biology. A cell death avenue evolved from a life-saving path. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6190), 1341–1342.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishimura, M., & Somerville, S. (2002). Plant biology. Resisting attack. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562), 2032–2033.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nimmerjahn, A., Kirchhoff, F., & Helmchen, F. (2005). Resting microglial cells are highly dynamic surveillants of brain parenchyma in vivo. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5726), 1314–1318.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Galkin, V. E., Yu, X., Bielnicki, J., Heuser, J., Ewing, C. P., Guerry, P., & Egelman, E. H. (2008). Divergence of quaternary structures among bacterial flagellar filaments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5874), 382–385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mcphee, J. E. (2014). Mastering Strategic Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

ten Have, H. A. M. J. (Ed.). (2015). Bioethics Education in a Global Perspective: Challenges in global bioethics (Vol. 4). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm, G., & Uszkoreit, H. (2012). TECHNOLOGIE JĘZYKOWE DLA JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO. In G. Rehm & H. Uszkoreit (Eds.), The Polish Language in the Digital Age (pp. 17–34). 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 The Social Science Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 15). Does Green Mucus Mean You’re Infectious And Need Antibiotics? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1998). Telecommunications and Information Technology: Federal Programs That Can Be Used to Fund Technology for Schools and Libraries (T-HEHS-98-246). 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

Liao, W. (2010). The epitope specificity of the human anti-Candida albicans antibody M1g1 [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

Saslow, L. (2007, March 25). Brookhaven Lab Avoids Cuts in Budget. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kampinga, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kampinga, 2014; Nishimura & Somerville, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Nishimura & Somerville, 2002)
Three authors: (Nimmerjahn et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Galkin et al., 2008)

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