How to format your references using the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Rewarding experience. Nature, 425(6960), 879.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Ginneken, V. J., & van den Thillart, G. E. (2000). Eel fat stores are enough to reach the Sargasso. Nature, 403(6766), 156–157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, J., Shen, L., & Zheng, D. (2014). Association between vitamin C intake and lung cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis. Scientific reports, 4, 6161.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, G. D., Chen, J., Hoffmann, C., Bittinger, K., Chen, Y.-Y., Keilbaugh, S. A., et al. (2011). Linking long-term dietary patterns with gut microbial enterotypes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6052), 105–108.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biech, E. (2015). 101 More Ways to Make Training Active. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Savransky, M. (2016). The Adventure of Relevance: An Ethics of Social Inquiry. (I. Stengers, Ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Spiotta, M., Bottrighi, A., Giordano, L., & Theseider Dupré, D. (2014). Conformance Analysis of the Execution of Clinical Guidelines with Basic Medical Knowledge and Clinical Terminology. In S. Miksch, D. Riaño, & A. ten Teije (Eds.), Knowledge Representation for Health Care: 6th International Workshop, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 21, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 62–77). Cham: 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 Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, March 3). Other Solar Systems Are Looking More Like Ours. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (2013). National Airspace System: Improved Budgeting Could Help FAA Better Determine Future Operations and Maintenance Priorities (No. GAO-13-693). 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

Yu, W. (2012). Impacts of storms and sea-level rise on coastal evolution between two capes: Onslow Bay, North Carolina (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Johnson, G. (2015, February 17). A Cancer Cluster Is Tough to Prove. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; van Ginneken and van den Thillart 2000).

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

Two authors: (van Ginneken and van den Thillart 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
Abbreviation	Child Adolesc. Social Work J.
ISSN (print)	0738-0151
ISSN (online)	1573-2797
Scope	General Social Sciences Social Sciences (miscellaneous)