How to format your references using the Sociology of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sociology of Education. 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

Hötzel, M. J. 2000. “Achievers Should Stay to Aid Brazilian Science.” Nature 407(6806):834.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luksza, Marta, and Michael Lässig. 2014. “A Predictive Fitness Model for Influenza.” Nature 507(7490):57–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gleiche, M., L. F. Chi, and H. Fuchs. 2000. “Nanoscopic Channel Lattices with Controlled Anisotropic Wetting.” Nature 403(6766):173–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wei, Tao, Ying Tian, Fangze Chen, Muzhi Cai, Junjie Zhang, Xufeng Jing, Fengchao Wang, Qinyuan Zhang, and Shiqing Xu. 2014. “Mid-Infrared Fluorescence, Energy Transfer Process and Rate Equation Analysis in Er3+ Doped Germanate Glass.” Scientific Reports 4:6060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tattar, Prabhanjan Narayanachar, Suresh Ramaiah, and B. G. Manjunath. 2016. A Course in Statistics With R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

César, Eduardo, Michael Alexander, Achim Streit, Jesper Larsson Träff, Christophe Cérin, Andreas Knüpfer, Dieter Kranzlmüller, and Shantenu Jha, eds. 2009. Euro-Par 2008 Workshops - Parallel Processing: VHPC 2008, UNICORE 2008, HPPC 2008, SGS 2008, PROPER 2008, ROIA 2008, and DPA 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 25-26, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5415. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chatterjee, Shouri, Kong Pang Pun, Nebojša Stanić, Yannis Tsividis, and Peter Kinget. 2007. “A 0.5 V Track-and-Hold (T/H) Circuit.” Pp. 77–95 in Analog Circuit Design Techniques at 0.5 V, edited by K. P. Pun, N. Stanić, Y. Tsividis, and P. Kinget. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Sociology of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “9 Animal ‘Facts’ Everyone Gets Wrong.” IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/10-animal-facts-we-still-get-wrong/.

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. 1997. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Risk of Serious Disruption to Essential Government Functions Calls for Agency Action Now. T-AIMD-97-52. 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

Olsen, Corinne M. 2009. “A Violinist in a Non-Classical World: Sugizo’s Use of Violin in Popular Music.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, George. 2014. “An Announcement Hits the Right Note.” New York Times, February 13, B21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hötzel 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hötzel 2000; Luksza and Lässig 2014).

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

Two authors: (Luksza and Lässig 2014)
Three authors: (Gleiche, Chi, and Fuchs 2000)
4 or more authors: (Wei et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sociology of Education
Abbreviation	Sociol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0038-0407
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science