How to format your references using the Social Identities citation style

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

Pierrehumbert, R. T. (2002). The hydrologic cycle in deep-time climate problems. Nature, 419(6903), 191–198.

A journal article with 2 authors

Imura, T., & Tomonaga, M. (2013). Differences between chimpanzees and humans in visual temporal integration. Scientific Reports, 3, 3256.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak, S.-H., Shen, R., & Schiefelbein, J. (2005). Positional signaling mediated by a receptor-like kinase in Arabidopsis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1111–1113.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Pärs, M., Gradmann, M., Gräf, K., Bauer, P., Thelakkat, M., & Köhler, J. (2014). Optical gating with organic building blocks. A quantitative model for the fluorescence modulation of photochromic perylene bisimide dithienylcyclopentene triads. Scientific Reports, 4, 4316.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway, J. (2009). Becoming a Category of One. Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dym, H., Oliveira, M. C. de, & Putinar, M. (Eds.). (2012). Mathematical Methods in Systems, Optimization, and Control: Festschrift in Honor of J. William Helton (Vol. 222). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yaqub, M., Cuingnet, R., Napolitano, R., Roundhill, D., Papageorghiou, A., Ardon, R., & Noble, J. A. (2013). Volumetric Segmentation of Key Fetal Brain Structures in 3D Ultrasound. In G. Wu, D. Zhang, D. Shen, P. Yan, K. Suzuki, & F. Wang (Eds.), Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 4th International Workshop, MLMI 2013, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 22, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 25–32). Springer International Publishing.

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 Identities.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 6). Boaty McBoatface Will NOT Be The Name Of This New Polar Research Ship. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/name-nercs-polar-search-ship-has-finally-be-announced/

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. (2009). Commercial Aviation: Airline Industry Contraction Due to Volatile Fuel Prices and Falling Demand Affects Airports, Passengers, and Federal Government Revenues (GAO-09-393). 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

Perantoni, E. J. (2010). Course design based on the Kolb learning style as it relates to student success in online classes [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Crow, K. (2001, December 9). Patch of Sunlight May Be Elusive as School Expands. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pierrehumbert, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Imura & Tomonaga, 2013; Pierrehumbert, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Imura & Tomonaga, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pärs et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Identities
ISSN (print)	1350-4630
ISSN (online)	1363-0296
Scope	Sociology and Political Science