How to format your references using the Frontiers in Sociology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in 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	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

van Dam, K. (2007). A more attractive career. Nature 446, 946.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alexander, T., and Natarajan, P. (2014). Rapid growth of seed black holes in the early universe by supra-exponential accretion. Science 345, 1330–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiedemann, N., Meisinger, C., and Pfanner, N. (2009). Cell biology. Connecting organelles. Science 325, 403–404.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Covert, M. W., Leung, T. H., Gaston, J. E., and Baltimore, D. (2005). Achieving stability of lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-kappaB activation. Science 309, 1854–1857.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belsey, C. (2011). A Future for Criticism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Presutti, V., d’Amato, C., Gandon, F., d’Aquin, M., Staab, S., and Tordai, A. eds. (2014). The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Armstrong, E. J., and Rogers, J. (2013). “Summary of MitraClip Clinical Data and Approach to Patient Selection,” in Atlas of Percutaneous Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair, eds. T. Feldman, O. Franzen, R. Low, J. Rogers, and K. K. Yeo (London: Springer), 53–61.

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 Frontiers in Sociology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Upgraded LHC Pushes Physics Into The Unknown. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/upgraded-lhc-pushes-physics-unknown/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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 (2006). Election Reform: Nine States’ Experiences Implementing Federal Requirements for Computerized Statewide Voter Registration Lists. 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

Knight, A. K. (2017). Beyond Leveraged Purchasing: Using Strengthened Buyer/Supplier Relationships to Accomplish Sustainable Strategic Sourcing and Smarter Single Source Acquisitions. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017). Shot Caller. New York Times, C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Dam, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (van Dam, 2007; Alexander and Natarajan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Alexander and Natarajan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Covert et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Sociology
Abbreviation	Front. Sociol.
ISSN (online)	2297-7775
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