How to format your references using the Social Neuroscience citation style

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

Madden, J. D. (2007). Mobile robots: motor challenges and materials solutions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5853), 1094–1097.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cai, W.-J., & Dai, M. (2004). Comment on “Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1477; author reply 1477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willis, G. L., Moore, C., & Armstrong, S. M. (2014). Parkinson’s disease, lights and melanocytes: looking beyond the retina. Scientific Reports, 4, 3921.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Di Paolo, G., Pellegrini, L., Letinic, K., Cestra, G., Zoncu, R., Voronov, S., Chang, S., Guo, J., Wenk, M. R., & De Camilli, P. (2002). Recruitment and regulation of phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase type 1 gamma by the FERM domain of talin. Nature, 420(6911), 85–89.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, A. (2013). Voice Over LTE. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hurrle, D. (2015). Social Media for Scientific Institutions: How to Attract Young Academics by Using Social Media as a Marketing Tool (J. Postatny, Ed.). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

A chapter in an edited book

Maurya, R. A., Chae, J., Park, H., Yang, H., Song, D., & Cho, K. (2015). Chromospheric Sunspot Oscillations in Hα and Ca ii 8542 Å. In J. Chae (Ed.), Initial Results from the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) (pp. 73–88). 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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, June 28). Stephen Hawking Has Another Message For The Rest Of Humanity. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/stephen-hawking-has-another-message-for-the-rest-of-humanity/

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. (2004). Project SAFECOM: Key Cross-Agency Emergency Communications Effort Requires Stronger Collaboration (GAO-04-494). 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

Sarkar, D. (2008). Nanopass compiler infrastructure [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Scott, M. (2017, June 27). Google Is Fined $2.7 Billion for Crowding Out European Rivals. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Madden, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cai & Dai, 2004; Madden, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Cai & Dai, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Di Paolo et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Soc. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1747-0919
ISSN (online)	1747-0927
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Social Psychology Development