How to format your references using the Social Choice and Welfare citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Social Choice and Welfare. 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

Powell K (2003) Short supply. Nature 423:566–567

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimmerman JB, Anastas PT (2015) Chemistry. Toward substitution with no regrets. Science 347:1198–1199

A journal article with 3 authors

Hÿtch MJ, Putaux J-L, Pénisson J-M (2003) Measurement of the displacement field of dislocations to 0.03 A by electron microscopy. Nature 423:270–273

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wu C, Chen J-L, Ye X-J, et al (2014) Test of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering based on the all-versus-nothing proof. Sci Rep 4:4291

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rachev ST, Kim YS, Bianchi ML, Fabozzi FJ (2011) Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Devetak I, Glažar SA (eds) (2014) Learning with Understanding in the Chemistry Classroom. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Chen Y, Atwood ME (2007) Context-Centered Design: Bridging the Gap Between Understanding and Designing. In: Jacko JA (ed) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability: 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–48

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 Social Choice and Welfare.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Extinct Giant Elephant Genetics Prove There Are Actually Two Living African Species. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extinct-giant-elephant-genetics-prove-there-are-actually-two-living-african-species/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1974) Review of Estimate in Prime Contract N00019-71-C-0450 With Grumman Aerospace Corporation. 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

Huff HK (2013) Thumb Twiddle Glossolalia: The Soumage. 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

Sabrina Tavernise With (2000) For the Families, Anger Mixes With Mourning. New York Times A10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2003; Zimmerman and Anastas 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zimmerman and Anastas 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Choice and Welfare
Abbreviation	Soc. Choice Welfare
ISSN (print)	0176-1714
ISSN (online)	1432-217X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Social Sciences (miscellaneous)