How to format your references using the Annual Review of Sociology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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	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

Macilwain C. 2000. Physicists celebrate detection of elusive “final” particle. Nature. 406(6794):334

A journal article with 2 authors

Balois T, Ben Amar M. 2014. Morphology of melanocytic lesions in situ. Sci. Rep. 4:3622

A journal article with 3 authors

Ito K, Uno M, Nakamura Y. 2000. A tripeptide “anticodon” deciphers stop codons in messenger RNA. Nature. 403(6770):680–84

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu P, Chen Y-J, Hao J-H, Ge J-F, Huang K, et al. 2013. Maternal depressive symptoms related to Epstein-Barr virus reactivation in late pregnancy. Sci. Rep. 3:3096

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Batten LM. 2013. Public Key Cryptography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Greco A. 2016. Advances in Electrodermal Activity Processing with Applications for Mental Health: From Heuristic Methods to Convex Optimization. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Depaulis F, Mousset S, Veuille M. 2005. Detecting Selective Sweeps with Haplotype Tests. In Selective Sweep, ed. D Nurminsky, pp. 34–54. Boston, MA: 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 Annual Review of Sociology.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2015. Newly Released Photograph Shows Strange “Hole” In Space. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1991. FAA Information Resources: Agency Needs to Correct Widespread Deficiencies. IMTEC-91-43, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Parajuli B. 2014. Students’ Motivations towards Volunteerism: A Comparative Study of the United States and Nepal. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Louisiana

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

Williams J. 2017. Going After Big Prey. New York Times, July 19, , p. BR6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Balois & Ben Amar 2014; Macilwain 2000).

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

Two authors: (Balois & Ben Amar 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Sociology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Sociol.
ISSN (print)	0360-0572
ISSN (online)	1545-2115
Scope	Sociology and Political Science