How to format your references using the Social Movement Studies citation style

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

Ritchie, M. G. (2007). Evolution. Feathers, females, and fathers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5847), 54–55.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, W. Y., & Sine, S. M. (2005). Principal pathway coupling agonist binding to channel gating in nicotinic receptors. Nature, 438(7065), 243–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hannon, J. B., Shenoy, V. B., & Schwarz, K. W. (2006). Anomalous spiral motion of steps near dislocations on silicon surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5791), 1266–1269.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Manzo, C., van Zanten, T. S., Saha, S., Torreno-Pina, J. A., Mayor, S., & Garcia-Parajo, M. F. (2014). PSF decomposition of nanoscopy images via Bayesian analysis unravels distinct molecular organization of the cell membrane. Scientific Reports, 4, 4354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, W. M. (2012). Fusion Plasma Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Katada, S. N., & Solís, M. (Eds.). (2008). Cross Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stipp, H. (2010). The Evolution of Cross-Platform Media Use in the United States: Insights from Consumer Research and NBC Universal’s “Olympic Research Lab.” In G. Einav (Ed.), Transitioned Media: A Turning Point into the Digital Realm (pp. 53–64). 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 Movement Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 19). Watch a Starfish Force a Microchip out of Its Body. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-starfish-force-microchip-out-its-body/

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. (2007). DHS Multi-Agency Operation Centers Would Benefit from Taking Further Steps to Enhance Collaboration and Coordination (GAO-07-686R). 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

Fulton, E. (2010). Differential effects of nicotine on prospective memory, sustained attention, and working memory [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

Saslow, L. (2007, April 8). Nassau to Transfer 9 Parks And 12 Roads to Town. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ritchie, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Lee & Sine, 2005; Ritchie, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Sine, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Manzo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Movement Studies
Abbreviation	Soc. Mov. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1474-2837
ISSN (online)	1474-2829
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies