How to format your references using the Research in Social Stratification and Mobility citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 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

Sarewitz, D. (2010). World view: Politicize me. Nature, 467(7311), 26.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krabbenhoft, D. P., & Sunderland, E. M. (2013). Environmental science. Global change and mercury. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6153), 1457–1458.

A journal article with 3 authors

Damasceno, P. F., Engel, M., & Glotzer, S. C. (2012). Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6093), 453–457.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Meier, T., Polzer, P., Diederichs, K., Welte, W., & Dimroth, P. (2005). Structure of the rotor ring of F-Type Na+-ATPase from Ilyobacter tartaricus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5722), 659–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss, J. (2016). Handbook of Ion Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Moyer, B. R., Cheruvu, N. P. S., & Hu, T. C.-C. (Eds.). (2014). Pharmaco-Imaging in Drug and Biologics Development: Fundamentals and Applications (Vol. 8). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Caraway, Y. H. (2016). Who Do I Run to? Finding a Mentor and Building Mentor Relationships. In A. Hoffman (Ed.), 50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership (pp. 37–46). Palgrave Macmillan 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 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, June 6). Images Appear To Show Broken Heroin Needles Stuck In Patient’s Neck. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/images-appear-to-show-broken-heroin-needles-stuck-in-patients-neck/

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). Airline Competition: Higher Fares and Reduced Competition at Concentrated Airports (RCED-90-102). 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

Lucas, W. A. (2017). Dynamics of Food Consumption in a Q’eqchi’ Maya Community [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

Chivers, C. J., & SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; Erin Arvedlund contributed reporting from Moscow for this article. (2004, July 10). U.S. Investigative Journalist Is Shot to Death in Russia. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Krabbenhoft & Sunderland, 2013; Sarewitz, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Krabbenhoft & Sunderland, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Meier et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Abbreviation	Res. Soc. Stratif. Mobil.
ISSN (print)	0276-5624
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous)