How to format your references using the Capitalism Nature Socialism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Capitalism Nature Socialism. 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

Chapais, Bernard. 2011. “Anthropology. The Deep Social Structure of Humankind.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 331 (6022): 1276–1277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mudd, James O., and David A. Kass. 2008. “Tackling Heart Failure in the Twenty-First Century.” Nature 451 (7181): 919–928.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhn, J. R., M. Emilio, and R. Bush. 2009. “Comment on ‘A Large Excess in Apparent Solar Oblateness Due to Surface Magnetism.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5931): 1143; author reply 1143.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Oliver, Dominik, Cheng-Chang Lien, Malle Soom, Thomas Baukrowitz, Peter Jonas, and Bernd Fakler. 2004. “Functional Conversion between A-Type and Delayed Rectifier K+ Channels by Membrane Lipids.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5668): 265–270.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vitetta, Giorgio M., Desmond P. Taylor, Giulio Colavolpe, Fabrizio Pancaldi, and Philippa A. Martin. 2013. Wireless Communications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shayler, David J. 2007. NASA’s Scientist-Astronauts. Edited by Colin Burgess. Springer Praxis Books. New York, NY: Praxis.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernardini, D., D. Muñoz de la Peña, A. Bemporad, and E. Frazzoli. 2009. “Simultaneous Optimal Control and Discrete Stochastic Sensor Selection.” In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 12th International Conference, HSCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-15, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Rupak Majumdar and Paulo Tabuada, 61–75. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Capitalism Nature Socialism.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “Outstanding Jurassic Fossils Rediscovered After More Than 100 Years.” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 24. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/outstanding-jurassic-fossils-rediscovered/.

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. 1973. Advanced Airborne Command Post Program. B-178570. 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

Jin, Rong. 2017. “Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition.” Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University.

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

Gordon, Michael R. 2017. “A Freed but Scarred City Tests Trump.” New York Times, July 1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapais 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Chapais 2011; Mudd and Kass 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mudd and Kass 2008)
Three authors: (Kuhn, Emilio, and Bush 2009)
4 or more authors: (Oliver et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Capitalism Nature Socialism
Abbreviation	Capital. Nat. Social.
ISSN (print)	1045-5752
ISSN (online)	1548-3290
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations