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

Miller, R. J. D. (2014). Femtosecond crystallography with ultrabright electrons and x-rays: capturing chemistry in action. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6175), 1108–1116.

A journal article with 2 authors

Des Marais, D. L., & Rausher, M. D. (2008). Escape from adaptive conflict after duplication in an anthocyanin pathway gene. Nature, 454(7205), 762–765.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Os, J., Kenis, G., & Rutten, B. P. F. (2010). The environment and schizophrenia. Nature, 468(7321), 203–212.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sidorenko, A., Krupenkin, T., Taylor, A., Fratzl, P., & Aizenberg, J. (2007). Reversible switching of hydrogel-actuated nanostructures into complex micropatterns. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5811), 487–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazze, R. S., Strock, E. S., Bergenstal, R. M., Criego, A., Cuddihy, R., Langer, O., et al. (2011). Staged Diabetes Management. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Derdikman, D., & Knierim, J. J. (Eds.). (2014). Space,Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Conejo, A. J., Baringo, L., Kazempour, S. J., & Siddiqui, A. S. (2016). Investment in Production Capacity. In L. Baringo Morales, S. J. Kazempour, & A. S. Siddiqui (Eds.), Investment in Electricity Generation and Transmission: Decision Making under Uncertainty (pp. 169–227). 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 Indicators Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 12). Astronomers Find Three Early Quasars That Defy What We Know About How Black Holes Form. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-find-3-early-quasars-that-defy-all-current-theories-about-how-fast-they-form/. 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). Race To The Top: States Implementing Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems despite Challenges (No. GAO-13-777). 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

Hsieh, D. A. (2019). Informed Technology Adoption Decisions Based on Innovation-Related Factors (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Lee, L. (2013, June 13). The Booty That Lies Beneath. 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 (Miller 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Des Marais and Rausher 2008; Miller 2014).

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

Two authors: (Des Marais and Rausher 2008)
Three or more authors: (Sidorenko et al. 2007)

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