How to format your references using the Social Indicators Research citation style

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

Rice, M. (2004). Physics. Superfluid helium-3 has a metallic partner. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5699), 1142–1143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Köhler, H.-R., & Triebskorn, R. (2013). Wildlife ecotoxicology of pesticides: can we track effects to the population level and beyond? Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6147), 759–765.

A journal article with 3 authors

Good, M. C., Zalatan, J. G., & Lim, W. A. (2011). Scaffold proteins: hubs for controlling the flow of cellular information. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6030), 680–686.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Leduc, G., Vidal, L., Tachikawa, K., Rostek, F., Sonzogni, C., Beaufort, L., & Bard, E. (2007). Moisture transport across Central America as a positive feedback on abrupt climatic changes. Nature, 445(7130), 908–911.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Metzger, R. M. (2012). The Physical Chemist’s Toolbox. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Matsuzawa, T., Humle, T., & Sugiyama, Y. (Eds.). (2011). The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Alviano, M., Leone, N., Manna, M., Terracina, G., & Veltri, P. (2012). Magic-Sets for Datalog with Existential Quantifiers. In P. Barceló & R. Pichler (Eds.), Datalog in Academia and Industry: Second International Workshop, Datalog 2.0, Vienna, Austria, September 11-13, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 31–43). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Indicators Research.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017, January 9). Tarantulas Are Right-Handed, Study Suggests. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (2011). School Improvement Grants: Early Implementation Under Way, but Reforms Affected by Short Time Frames (No. GAO-11-741). Washington, DC: 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

Alla, B. (2017). Wellbore Stability Analysis of Sanish Field using 3-D Finite Element Model: Bakken Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, August 26). Leg Injury May End Season for Cespedes. New York Times, p. D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Köhler and Triebskorn 2013; Rice 2004).

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

Two authors: (Köhler and Triebskorn 2013)
Three or more authors: (Leduc et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Indicators Research
Abbreviation	Soc. Indic. Res.
ISSN (print)	0303-8300
ISSN (online)	1573-0921
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology General Social Sciences Sociology and Political Science