How to format your references using the Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 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

Campbell, P. N. 2000. “Health Care in Former Soviet Republics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 288 (5474): 2131b.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Keefe, F. R., and L. M. Chiappe. 2011. “Viviparity and K-Selected Life History in a Mesozoic Marine Plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6044): 870–873.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaydos, Laura J., Wenchao Wang, and Susan Strome. 2014. “Gene Repression. H3K27me and PRC2 Transmit a Memory of Repression across Generations and during Development.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6203): 1515–1518.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu, Xiaohao, Chang Cheng, Hongbao Xin, Hongxiang Lei, and Baojun Li. 2014. “Controllable Orientation of Single Silver Nanowire Using Two Fiber Probes.” Scientific Reports 4 (February 2014): 3989.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halstead, Paul. 2014. Two Oxen Ahead. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Katzschner, Antje, Michael Waibel, Dirk Schwede, Lutz Katzschner, Michael Schmidt, and Harry Storch, eds. 2016. Sustainable Ho Chi Minh City: Climate Policies for Emerging Mega Cities. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Casadiego, Jose, and Marc Timme. 2015. “Network Dynamics as an Inverse Problem.” In Mathematical Technology of Networks: Bielefeld, December 2013, edited by Delio Mugnolo, 39–48. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Cham: 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 Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Researchers Aim To Create Remote-Controlled Dragonflies.” IFLScience, IFLScience, January 30. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-aim-to-create-remotecontrolled-dragonflies/.

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. 1987. [Recommendation to Congress To Relieve FAA Employee of Liability for Erroneous Payment]. B-227513. 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

Doyle, Jennifer J. 2012. “Under the Influence: High Risk Social Networks and Recidivism.” 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

Rabbitt, Linda. 2013. “Neither Teacher Nor Nurse.” New York Times, May 12, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campbell 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell 2000; O’Keefe and Chiappe 2011).

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

Two authors: (O’Keefe and Chiappe 2011)
Three authors: (Gaydos, Wang, and Strome 2014)
4 or more authors: (Xu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
Abbreviation	Innovation (Abingdon)
ISSN (print)	1351-1610
ISSN (online)	1469-8412
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Geography, Planning and Development