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

Benjamin, S. (2000). QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY: Single Photons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5500), 2273–2274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Han, J. S., & Boeke, J. D. (2004). A highly active synthetic mammalian retrotransposon. Nature, 429(6989), 314–318.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scatena, L. F., Brown, M. G., & Richmond, G. L. (2001). Water at hydrophobic surfaces: weak hydrogen bonding and strong orientation effects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5518), 908–912.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gibson, L., Lee, T. M., Koh, L. P., Brook, B. W., Gardner, T. A., Barlow, J., et al. (2011). Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity. Nature, 478(7369), 378–381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schorn, C., & Taylor, B. (2004). NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sutton, M. A., Mason, K. E., Sheppard, L. J., Sverdrup, H., Haeuber, R., & Hicks, W. K. (Eds.). (2014). Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, D., Yu, X., Rao, J., & Yu, L. (2016). Comparative Study on the Status and Strategies of Infrastructure Construction of ICT in Education Between China and the United States. In R. Huang, Kinshuk, & J. K. Price (Eds.), ICT in Education in Global Context: Comparative Reports of Innovations in K-12 Education (pp. 95–106). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, January 30). New Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Will Help Restore The Decimated, Iconic Tree. 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. (1978). Review of Army’s Efforts To Develop TACFIRE (No. LCD-78-116). 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

Copeland, A. D. (2013). A qualitative study of clinical oncology nurses’ perceptions of work-life balance (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, June 12). ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Suspends Production. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benjamin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benjamin 2000; Han and Boeke 2004).

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

Two authors: (Han and Boeke 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gibson 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)