How to format your references using the International Studies in Sociology of Education citation style

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

Heisenberg, Martin. 2009. “Is Free Will an Illusion?” Nature 459 (7244): 164–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ives, Anthony R., and Michael C. Whitlock. 2002. “Ecology. Inbreeding and Metapopulations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5554): 454–455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fisher, R. J., J. Pevsner, and R. D. Burgoyne. 2001. “Control of Fusion Pore Dynamics during Exocytosis by Munc18.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5505): 875–878.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yang, T., Y. L. Zhao, Y. Tong, Z. B. Jiao, J. Wei, J. X. Cai, X. D. Han, et al. 2018. “Multicomponent Intermetallic Nanoparticles and Superb Mechanical Behaviors of Complex Alloys.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 362 (6417): 933–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toutain, Laurent, and Ana Minaburo. 2013. Local Networks and the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pătruţ, Bogdan, and Monica Pătruţ, eds. 2014. Social Media in Politics: Case Studies on the Political Power of Social Media. Vol. 13. Public Administration and Information Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sobhani-Tehrani, Ehsan, and Khashayar Khorasani. 2009. “Proposed FDII for Nonlinear Systems with Partial State Measurement.” In Fault Diagnosis of Nonlinear Systems Using a Hybrid Approach, edited by Khashayar Khorasani, 71–97. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 International Studies in Sociology of Education.

Blog post

Potvin, Steve. 2017. “New Species Of Flying Squirrel Discovered In North America.” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 12.

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. 1971. Administration of Certain Allowances and Differentials Paid to Civilian Employees Located Overseas. 093007. 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

Gonzalez, Saida Noemi. 2010. “Analysis of the Impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act on California’s Children: A Report Card on the CalWORKs Program.” 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

Poniewozik, James. 2017. “Sketching an Artistic Love Triangle.” New York Times, May 11, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heisenberg 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Heisenberg 2009; Ives and Whitlock 2002).

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

Two authors: (Ives and Whitlock 2002)
Three authors: (Fisher, Pevsner, and Burgoyne 2001)
4 or more authors: (Yang et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies in Sociology of Education
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Sociol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0962-0214
ISSN (online)	1747-5066
Scope	General Social Sciences Education