How to format your references using the Socio-Economic Planning Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 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

[1]

Shatz CJ. David Hunter Hubel (1926-2013). Nature 2013;502:625.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wortmann UG, Paytan A. Rapid variability of seawater chemistry over the past 130 million years. Science 2012;337:334–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wuchty S, Jones BF, Uzzi B. The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 2007;316:1036–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Godoy R, Wilkie D, Overman H, Cubas A, Cubas G, Demmer J, et al. Valuation of consumption and sale of forest goods from a Central American rain forest. Nature 2000;406:62–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gardner S, Birley S. Blogging for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Feld LG, Kaskel FJ, editors. Fluid and Electrolytes in Pediatrics: A Comprehensive Handbook. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Moiseeva O, Ferbeyre G. Oncogene-Induced Senescence: Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction. In: Hayat MA, editor. Tumor Dormancy, Quiescence, and Senescence, Volume 2: Aging, Cancer, and Noncancer Pathologies, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014, p. 45–52.

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 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Oceans Warming 15 Times Faster Than The Last 10,000 Years. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oceans-warming-15-times-faster-last-10000-years/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Federal Software Licenses: Most Agencies Have Reported Planned Actions to Address Our Prior Recommendations on Software License Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pestano AC. The Utilization of a Web-Based Internet Application to Improve Access and Efficiency of In-Home Care Services Provided by Personal Care Aides. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

Kishkovsky S. Russian Leaders Attend Patriarch’s Funeral. New York Times 2008:A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Abbreviation	Socioecon. Plann. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0038-0121
Scope	Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Economics and Econometrics Geography, Planning and Development