How to format your references using the The British Journal of Sociology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The British Journal of Sociology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Storz, G. 2002 ‘An expanding universe of noncoding RNAs’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 296(5571): p.1260–1263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhao, M. and Running, S.W. 2010 ‘Drought-induced reduction in global terrestrial net primary production from 2000 through 2009’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 329(5994): p.940–943.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baum, D.A., Smith, S.D. and Donovan, S.S.S. 2005 ‘Evolution. The tree-thinking challenge’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 310(5750): p.979–980.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ludwig, M.-G., Vanek, M., Guerini, D., Gasser, J.A., Jones, C.E., Junker, U., Hofstetter, H., Wolf, R.M. and Seuwen, K. 2003 ‘Proton-sensing G-protein-coupled receptors’, Nature 425(6953): p.93–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, C. 2012 An Introduction to LTE, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kostkova, P., Szomszor, M. and Fowler, D. (eds) 2012 Electronic Healthcare: 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, Málaga, Spain, November 21-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Karande, S. 2012 ‘Quality of Life in Children Diagnosed with Specific Learning Disability or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder’ in D. Hollar (ed) Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs, New York, NY: 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 The British Journal of Sociology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015 ‘Intelligent Life In The Universe? Phone Home, Dammit!’, IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/intelligent-life-universe-phone-home-dammit/ [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

Government Accountability Office 2017 High Risk: Actions Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses in Federal Management of Programs Serving Indian Tribes, 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

Chiang, I.-C. 2010 A historical technique from a modern perspective: The transcription scordatura in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364. Doctoral dissertation. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Feeney, K. 2006 ‘QUICK BITE | Chester; Cider, From Doughnuts to Hot Dogs’, New York Times: p.14NJ19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Storz 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Storz 2002; Zhao and Running 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zhao and Running 2010)
Three authors: (Baum, Smith and Donovan 2005)
4 or more authors: (Ludwig et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	The British Journal of Sociology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Sociol.
ISSN (print)	0007-1315
ISSN (online)	1468-4446
Scope	Sociology and Political Science