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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Grillner, S. (2011). Neuroscience. Human locomotor circuits conform. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6058), 912–913.
A journal article with 2 authors
Schiøtz, J., & Jacobsen, K. W. (2003). A maximum in the strength of nanocrystalline copper. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5638), 1357–1359.
A journal article with 3 authors
Elbelrhiti, H., Claudin, P., & Andreotti, B. (2005). Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes. Nature, 437(7059), 720–723.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Crosnier, C., Bustamante, L. Y., Bartholdson, S. J., Bei, A. K., Theron, M., Uchikawa, M., et al. (2011). Basigin is a receptor essential for erythrocyte invasion by Plasmodium falciparum. Nature, 480(7378), 534–537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Walker, C., & Fincham, B. (2011). Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Mitchell, R. C., & Moore, S. A. (Eds.). (2012). Politics, Participation & Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.
A chapter in an edited book
Ma, H., Liu, D., & Wang, D. (2015). Distributed Control for Nonlinear Time-Delayed Multi-Agent Systems with Connectivity Preservation Using Neural Networks. In S. Arik, T. Huang, W. K. Lai, & Q. Liu (Eds.), Neural Information Processing: 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings Part III (pp. 34–42). 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
Andrews, R. (2016, June 20). Researchers Can Seek And Destroy Genes Controlling Bacterial “Shields.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-can-seek-and-destroy-genes-controlling-bacterial-shields/. 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. (2011). Small Business Innovation Research: SBA Should Work with Agencies to Improve the Data Available for Program Evaluation (No. GAO-11-698). 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
Huff, H. K. (2013). Thumb Twiddle Glossolalia: The Soumage (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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
Hodara, S. (2014, August 3). Stitching Together Yarn, Memory and History. New York Times, p. WE6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grillner 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Grillner 2011; Schiøtz and Jacobsen 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (Schiøtz and Jacobsen 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Crosnier et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal titleChild Indicators Research
AbbreviationChild Indic. Res.
ISSN (print)1874-897X
ISSN (online)1874-8988
ScopeSocial Psychology
Health(social science)
Sociology and Political Science

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