How to format your references using the Social Influence citation style

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

Goldston, D. (2008). Financial planning. Nature, 454(7205), 680.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giazotto, F., & Martínez-Pérez, M. J. (2012). The Josephson heat interferometer. Nature, 492(7429), 401–405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frumkin, A., Shimron, A., & Rosenbaum, J. (2003). Radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem. Nature, 425(6954), 169–171.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Terao, K., Gel, M., Okonogi, A., Fuke, A., Okitsu, T., Tada, T., Suzuki, T., Nagamatsu, S., Washizu, M., & Kotera, H. (2014). Subcellular glucose exposure biases the spatial distribution of insulin granules in single pancreatic beta cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 4123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliamonte, S. A. (2015). Making Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pacheco, A., Santos, R., Oliveira, M. do R., & Paulino, C. D. (Eds.). (2014). New Advances in Statistical Modeling and Applications. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ben Meskina, S., Doggaz, N., & Khalgui, M. (2015). An Efficient Reconfiguration-Based Approach for Improving Smart Grid Performance. In H. Fujita & G. Guizzi (Eds.), Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: 14th International Conference, SoMet 2015, Naples, Italy, September 15-17, 2015. Proceedings (pp. 42–55). 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 Influence.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 17). 3D Printed Airway Saves Toddler’s Life. 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. (2002). District of Columbia: D.C. Public Schools’ Modernization Program Faces Major Challenges (GAO-02-628T). 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

Ivy, J. (2011). The Psychological Effect of Parental Incarceration on School-Age Children [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, May 6). How Penguins Make A Home on Road Ice. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Giazotto & Martínez-Pérez, 2012; Goldston, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Giazotto & Martínez-Pérez, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Terao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Influence
Abbreviation	Soc. Influ.
ISSN (print)	1553-4510
ISSN (online)	1553-4529
Scope	Social Psychology