How to format your references using the The Sociological Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Sociological Review. 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

Lundstrom, M. (2003). Applied physics. Moore’s law forever? Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5604), 210–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Convey, P., & Stevens, M. I. (2007). Ecology. Antarctic biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1877–1878.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin, P. D., Walsh, C. T., & Magarvey, N. A. (2007). A transglutaminase homologue as a condensation catalyst in antibiotic assembly lines. Nature, 448(7155), 824–827.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yin, Y., Rioux, R. M., Erdonmez, C. K., Hughes, S., Somorjai, G. A., & Alivisatos, A. P. (2004). Formation of hollow nanocrystals through the nanoscale Kirkendall effect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5671), 711–714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone, R. (2012). The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Guo, R. (2015). Multiregional Economic Development in China (H. Gui & L. C. Guo, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen, V.-T., Vu, H., & Tran, T.-H. (2015). An Efficient Combination of RGB and Depth for Background Subtraction. In Q. A. Dang, X. H. Nguyen, H. B. Le, V. H. Nguyen, & V. N. Q. Bao (Eds.), Some Current Advanced Researches on Information and Computer Science in Vietnam: Post-proceedings of The First NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (pp. 49–63). 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 The Sociological Review.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 15). Planet-Devouring Star Tells Us What Rocky Planets Are Made Of. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/planetdevouring-star-tells-us-what-rocky-planets-are-made-of/

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. (2000). College Tuition and Fees: Changes in the 1995-96 to 1999-2000 Period Compared With Median Household Income (HEHS-00-198R). 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

Beck, K. (2011). Comparing high school physics standards: What is included and what is not [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

Otis, J. (2017, January 30). Falling Into Despair, and Taking Baby Steps to Get Off the Couch. New York Times, A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lundstrom, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Convey & Stevens, 2007; Lundstrom, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Convey & Stevens, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Sociological Review
ISSN (print)	0038-0261
ISSN (online)	1467-954X
Scope