How to format your references using the Child Indicators Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Child Indicators Research. 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

Edenhofer, O. (2015). ENERGY. King Coal and the queen of subsidies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6254), 1286–1287.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlapbach, L., & Züttel, A. (2001). Hydrogen-storage materials for mobile applications. Nature, 414(6861), 353–358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Penner, J. E., Rotstayn, L. D., & Crowley, T. J. (2000). Indirect aerosol forcing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5491), 407a.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Makohon-Moore, A. P., Matsukuma, K., Zhang, M., Reiter, J. G., Gerold, J. M., Jiao, Y., et al. (2018). Precancerous neoplastic cells can move through the pancreatic ductal system. Nature, 561(7722), 201–205.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kunz, R. G. (2009). Environmental Calculations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McDermott, E. (2016). Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm: Troubled Subjects, Troubling Norms. (K. Roen, Ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Dreger, A. D. (2006). Intersex and Human Rights: The Long View. In S. E. Sytsma (Ed.), Ethics and Intersex (pp. 73–86). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Indicators Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 27). In Defence Of Ecovillages: The Communities That Can Teach The World To Live Sustainably. 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. (1989). Federal Research: Final Site Selection Process for DOE’s Super Collider (No. RCED-89-129BR). 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

McCain, A. K. (2015). Influence of market setting and time of purchase on counts of aerobic bacteria, Escherichia coli, and coliform and prevalence of Salmonella and Listeria in beef, pork, and chicken in Vietnam (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, September 8). Toys, Manolos and Tennis Champs. New York Times, p. AR72.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edenhofer 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Edenhofer 2015; Schlapbach and Züttel 2001).

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

Two authors: (Schlapbach and Züttel 2001)
Three or more authors: (Makohon-Moore et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Child Indicators Research
Abbreviation	Child Indic. Res.
ISSN (print)	1874-897X
ISSN (online)	1874-8988
Scope	Social Psychology Health(social science) Sociology and Political Science