How to format your references using the British Journal of Sociology of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Sociology of Education. 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

Honour, John W. 2004. “The Fight for Fair Play.” Nature 430 (6996): 143–144.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oh, Da Young, and Jerrold M. Olefsky. 2010. “Medicine. Wnt Fans the Flames in Obesity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5990): 397–398.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corcoran, Aaron J., Jesse R. Barber, and William E. Conner. 2009. “Tiger Moth Jams Bat Sonar.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5938): 325–327.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gegenwart, P., T. Westerkamp, C. Krellner, Y. Tokiwa, S. Paschen, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, E. Abrahams, and Q. Si. 2007. “Multiple Energy Scales at a Quantum Critical Point.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5814): 969–971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boeker, Egbert, and Rienk Van Grondelle. 2011. Environmental Physics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Warf, Barney, ed. 2012. Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography. Vol. 104. GeoJournal Library. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Bongiovanni, Giorgio, and Chiara Valentini. 2009. “Reciprocity, Balancing and Proportionality Rawls and Habermas on Moral and Political Reasonableness.” In Reasonableness and Law, edited by Giorgio Bongiovanni, Giovanni Sartor, and Chiara Valentini, 79–107. Law and Philosophy Library, Francisco J. Laporta, Aleksander Peczenik, and Frederick Schauer. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Ranking Exoplanets By Their Ability To Support Life.” IFLScience, IFLScience, April 23. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ranking-exoplanets-their-ability-support-life/.

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. 2007. Digital Television Transition: Increased Federal Planning and Risk Management Could Further Facilitate the DTV Transition. GAO-08-43. 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

Stefania, Silvia. 2017. “From Italian American Icon to Working Class Hero: Perspectives on Pietro Di Donato’s ‘Christ in Concrete.’” 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

Leland, John. 2016. “The Last Days for the Circus.” New York Times, December 16, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Honour 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Honour 2004; Oh and Olefsky 2010).

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

Two authors: (Oh and Olefsky 2010)
Three authors: (Corcoran, Barber, and Conner 2009)
4 or more authors: (Gegenwart et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Sociology of Education
Abbreviation	Br. J. Sociol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0142-5692
ISSN (online)	1465-3346
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science