How to format your references using the Forum for Social Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forum for Social Economics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ambros, V. (2004). The functions of animal microRNAs. Nature, 431(7006), 350–355.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mounce, R. C. P., & Wills, M. A. (2011). Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged. Nature, 476(7359), E1; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miake, J., Marbán, E., & Nuss, H. B. (2002). Biological pacemaker created by gene transfer. Nature, 419(6903), 132–133.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhao, Y., Christensen, S. K., Fankhauser, C., Cashman, J. R., Cohen, J. D., Weigel, D., & Chory, J. (2001). A role for flavin monooxygenase-like enzymes in auxin biosynthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5502), 306–309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lacalle, D. (2014). Life in the Financial Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kirchhof, B., & Wong, D. (Eds.). (2005). Vitreo-retinal Surgery. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Adelaar, A. (2016). Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard. In G. Campbell (Ed.), Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World (pp. 77–112). Springer International Publishing.

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 Forum for Social Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 27). Why Are Humans Altruistic? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-humans-altruistic/

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. (1994). National Test Facility: Civilian Agency Use of Supercomputers Not Feasible (AIMD-95-28). 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

McDuffie, C. A. (2017). Melodies of intervention: Music therapy for transitional-age youth: A grant proposal [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

Kelly, T. (1996, November 6). High-Tech Fraternity. New York Times, B21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ambros, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Ambros, 2004; Mounce & Wills, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Mounce & Wills, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Forum for Social Economics
Abbreviation	For. Soc. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0736-0932
ISSN (online)	1874-6381
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science