How to format your references using the Journal of Socio-Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Socio-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

Finkelstein, G., 2001. Essays on science and society. Romanticism, race, and recapitulation. Science 294, 2101–2102.

A journal article with 2 authors

Que, L., Jr, Tolman, W.B., 2008. Biologically inspired oxidation catalysis. Nature 455, 333–340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hines, P.J., Wible, B., McCartney, M., 2010. Science, language, and literacy. Learning to read, reading to learn. Introduction. Science 328, 447.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Al Ahmad, M., Al-Zuhair, S., Taher, H., Hilal-Alnaqbi, A., 2014. RF microalgal lipid content characterization. Sci. Rep. 4, 5108.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Linder, B., 2004. Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brameier, M.F., 2007. Linear Genetic Programming, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawai, T., Kushizaki, S., 2015. Diagnosis of Air-Conditioner by Using Its Dynamic Property, in: Tse, P.W., Mathew, J., Wong, K., Lam, R., Ko, C.N. (Eds.), Engineering Asset Management - Systems, Professional Practices and Certification: Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2013) & the 3rd International Conference on Utility Management & Safety (ICUMAS), Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–52.

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 Journal of Socio-Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Source Of Black Hole Jets Revealed For The First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/relativistic-jets/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. FAA Training: Continued Improvements Needed in FAA’s Controller Field Training Program (No. RCED-89-83). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Randolph, J.L., 2017. A Mixed-Methods Investigation of FMS Shoulder Mobility and Reported Upper Body Injury in Collegiate Football Athletes at a Division II Midwestern University (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. After Shake-Up, Pandora Picks Chief of Sling TV To Be Its New C.E.O. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkelstein, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Finkelstein, 2001; Que and Tolman, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Que and Tolman, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Al Ahmad et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Socio-Economics
Abbreviation	J. Socio Econ.
ISSN (print)	1053-5357
Scope	Economics and Econometrics