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

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

Klar, A. J. S. (2002). Fibonacci’s flowers. Nature, 417(6889), 595.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sachs, J., & Malaney, P. (2002). The economic and social burden of malaria. Nature, 415(6872), 680–685.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chang, M.-M., Zhang, J., & Miao, D. (2006). A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol biota of China. Nature, 441(7096), 972–974.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Relph, R. A., Guasco, T. L., Elliott, B. M., Kamrath, M. Z., McCoy, A. B., Steele, R. P., et al. (2010). How the shape of an H-bonded network controls proton-coupled water activation in HONO formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5963), 308–312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ciobanu, C. V., Wang, C.-Z., & Ho, K.-M. (2013). Atomic Structure Prediction of Nanostructures, Clusters and Surfaces. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Anazawa, H., & Shimizu, S. (Eds.). (2014). Microbial Production: From Genome Design to Cell Engineering. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Tang, Y., Deng, K., Cao, H., & Zhou, X. (2005). Trace-Based Runtime Instruction Rescheduling for Architecture Extension. In L. T. Yang, X. Zhou, W. Zhao, Z. Wu, Y. Zhu, & M. Lin (Eds.), Embedded Software and Systems: Second International Conference, ICESS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 16-18, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 4–15). 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 Justice Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 13). Why Do We Hallucinate? 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. (1996). Mass Transit: Actions Needed for the BART Airport Extension (No. RCED-96-176). 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

Fountain, J. M. (2014). Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model (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

Kelly, C. (2013, April 14). You Loved My Film? Thanks, Man. Spare a Dime? New York Times, p. A23B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klar 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Klar 2002; Sachs and Malaney 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sachs and Malaney 2002)
Three or more authors: (Relph et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Justice Research
Abbreviation	Soc. Justice Res.
ISSN (print)	0885-7466
ISSN (online)	1573-6725
Scope	Law Sociology and Political Science Anthropology