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

Melcher, D. (2001). Persistence of visual memory for scenes. Nature, 412(6845), 401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tinel, A., & Tschopp, J. (2004). The PIDDosome, a protein complex implicated in activation of caspase-2 in response to genotoxic stress. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5672), 843–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu, Z.-X., Lan, H., & Ji, W. (2014). Role of the dispersion force in modeling the interfacial properties of molecule-metal interfaces: adsorption of thiophene on copper surfaces. Scientific reports, 4, 5036.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dupont, S., Morsut, L., Aragona, M., Enzo, E., Giulitti, S., Cordenonsi, M., et al. (2011). Role of YAP/TAZ in mechanotransduction. Nature, 474(7350), 179–183.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morrow, E., Boaz, A., Brearley, S., & Ross, F. (2011). Handbook of Service User Involvement in Nursing and Healthcare Research. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Ismail, M. E. H., & Koelink, E. (Eds.). (2005). Theory and Applications of Special Functions: A Volume Dedicated to Mizan Rahman (Vol. 13). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Monnet, C., De Baets, K., & Yacobucci, M. M. (2015). Buckman’s Rules of Covariation. In C. Klug, D. Korn, K. De Baets, I. Kruta, & R. H. Mapes (Eds.), Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography (pp. 67–94). 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

Fang, J. (2014, April 26). Birds Adapting to Chernobyl’s Radiation. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/birds-adapting-chernobyls-radiation/. 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. (1992). Motor Vehicle Regulations: Regulatory Cost Estimates Could Be Improved (No. RCED-92-110). 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

Hofmann, T. B. (2008). Adductor and abductor spasmodic dysphonia: A comparison of quality of life issues for those receiving Botox treatment (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Cooper, M. (2017, October 12). Venezuela Cancels Another Dudamel Tour. 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 (Melcher 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Melcher 2001; Tinel and Tschopp 2004).

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

Two authors: (Tinel and Tschopp 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dupont et al. 2011)

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