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

Reipurth, B. (2013). George Herbig (1920-2013). Nature, 503(7477), 470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matzke, M. A., & Matzke, A. J. (2000). Cloning problems don’t surprise plant biologists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5475), 2318b.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butler, M. A., Sawyer, S. A., & Losos, J. B. (2007). Sexual dimorphism and adaptive radiation in Anolis lizards. Nature, 447(7141), 202–205.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chai, G., Dong, G., Qiu, J., Zhang, Q., & Yang, Z. (2013). Phase transformation and intense 2.7 μm emission from Er3+ doped YF3/YOF submicron-crystals. Scientific reports, 3, 1598.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fortey, R. A., & Bruton, D. L. (2013). Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen. Norway: The Lethaia Foundation.

An edited book

Chli, M., & Wilde, P. de (Eds.). (2009). Convergence and Knowledge Processing in Multi-Agent Systems. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Salah, A., Outbib, R., & Gaber, J. (2012). Simulation and Control of PEMFCS Thermal Behavior. In M. S. Basualdo, D. Feroldi, & R. Outbib (Eds.), PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Processor Systems: A Multidisciplinary Study of Modelling, Simulation, Fault Diagnosis and Advanced Control (pp. 117–149). London: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, September 29). Ocean Predators Can Help Reset Our Planet’s Thermostat. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ocean-predators-can-help-reset-our-planet-s-thermostat/. 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. (2006). Natural Gas Pipeline Safety: Risk-Based Standards Should Allow Operators to Better Tailor Reassessments to Pipeline Threats (No. GAO-06-945). 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

Bradford, J. (2012). Commutative endomorphism rings of simple abelian varieties over finite fields (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, February 25). Back of Rotation Helps Mets Get First Exhibition Win. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reipurth 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Matzke and Matzke 2000; Reipurth 2013).

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

Two authors: (Matzke and Matzke 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chai et al. 2013)

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)