How to format your references using the Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. 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

Nathan, C. (2002). Immunology. Catalytic antibody bridges innate and adaptive immunity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5601), 2143–2144.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jain, S., & Bates, F. S. (2003). On the origins of morphological complexity in block copolymer surfactants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5618), 460–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu, D., Wang, C., & Guyot-Sionnest, P. (2003). n-Type conducting CdSe nanocrystal solids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5623), 1277–1280.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Paredes, B., Widera, A., Murg, V., Mandel, O., Fölling, S., Cirac, I., Shlyapnikov, G. V., Hänsch, T. W., & Bloch, I. (2004). Tonks-Girardeau gas of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. Nature, 429(6989), 277–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossiter, A. (2008). Professional Excellence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yamanouchi, K., Roso, L., Li, R., Mathur, D., & Normand, D. (Eds.). (2015). Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 112). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Shelton, E. J. (2013). Narrative Frameworks of Consideration: Horizontal and Vertical Approaches to Conceptualizing the Sub-Antarctic. In D. K. Müller, L. Lundmark, & R. H. Lemelin (Eds.), New Issues in Polar Tourism: Communities, Environments, Politics (pp. 51–66). Springer Netherlands.

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 Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 4). The Anthropocene Has Been Shaped By The Media And Our Digital Lives. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1990). Air Traffic Control: Inadequate Planning Increases Risk of Computer Failures in Los Angeles (IMTEC-90-49). 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

Mardakhanian, A. (2015). Blended CME, Inc. A business plan [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

Hollander, S. (2009, April 12). The Fading of the Green. New York Times, CY1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nathan, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jain & Bates, 2003; Nathan, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jain & Bates, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Paredes et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Abbreviation	Methodology (Gott.)
ISSN (print)	1614-1881
ISSN (online)	1614-2241
Scope	General Psychology General Social Sciences