How to format your references using the American Sociological Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Sociological Review. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

May, Thomas. 2004. “Isolation Is Not the Answer.” Nature 429(6992):603.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoekstra, Hopi E., and Trevor Price. 2004. “Evolution. Parallel Evolution Is in the Genes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303(5665):1779–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhong, Y., L. Zhang, and D. Su. 2000. “Collaborations Tailored for Bioinformatics Projects.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290(5499):2074a.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Taniguchi-Ikeda, Mariko, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Motoi Kanagawa, Chih-Chieh Yu, Kouhei Mori, Tetsuya Oda, Atsushi Kuga, Hiroki Kurahashi, Hasan O. Akman, Salvatore DiMauro, Ryuji Kaji, Toshifumi Yokota, Shin’ichi Takeda, and Tatsushi Toda. 2011. “Pathogenic Exon-Trapping by SVA Retrotransposon and Rescue in Fukuyama Muscular Dystrophy.” Nature 478(7367):127–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartmann, Alexander K., and Martin Weigt. 2005. Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Pan, Zhigeng, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, and Abdennour El Rhalibi, eds. 2008. Transactions on Edutainment I. Vol. 5080. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schuijt, T. J., T. Poll, and W. J. Wiersinga. 2012. “Gut Microbiome and Host Defense Interactions during Critical Illness.” Pp. 29–40 in Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2012, edited by J.-L. Vincent. 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 American Sociological Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Awesome Time-Lapse Of Biggest Sunspot In 24 Years.” 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. DOT’s Restructuring: Limited Progress in Streamlining Field Office Structure. RCED-98-138. 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

Berkland, Michael. 2015. “Strain Analysis of a Detachment Shear Zone.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Billard, Mary. 2012. “A Big Push To Get Going.” New York Times, June 21, E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hoekstra and Price 2004; May 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hoekstra and Price 2004)
Three authors: (Zhong, Zhang, and Su 2000)
4 or more authors: (Taniguchi-Ikeda et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Sociological Review
Abbreviation	Am. Sociol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0003-1224
Scope	Sociology and Political Science