How to format your references using the China Journal of Social Work citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China Journal of Social Work. 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	Download the output style file
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

Amaravadi, Ravi K. 2011. “Cancer. Autophagy in Tumor Immunity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6062): 1501–1502.

A journal article with 2 authors

Srygley, R. B., and A. L. R. Thomas. 2002. “Unconventional Lift-Generating Mechanisms in Free-Flying Butterflies.” Nature 420 (6916): 660–664.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhagat, Deepa, Suman K. Samanta, and Santanu Bhattacharya. 2013. “Efficient Management of Fruit Pests by Pheromone Nanogels.” Scientific Reports 3: 1294.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

de la Fuente-Fernández, R., T. J. Ruth, V. Sossi, M. Schulzer, D. B. Calne, and A. J. Stoessl. 2001. “Expectation and Dopamine Release: Mechanism of the Placebo Effect in Parkinson’s Disease.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5532): 1164–1166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padova, Ted. 2011. Adobe® Acrobat® X PDF Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Yarden, Yosef, and Gabi Tarcic, eds. 2013. Vesicle Trafficking in Cancer. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

van den Berg, Bibi, and Ronald E. Leenes. 2013. “Abort, Retry, Fail: Scoping Techno-Regulation and Other Techno-Effects.” In Human Law and Computer Law: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Mireille Hildebrandt and Jeanne Gaakeer, 67–87. 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 China Journal of Social Work.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Test Confirms There’s a Huge Hot Bubble Of Gas Caused By A Supernova In Our Galaxy.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Shows Success but Can Be Strengthened. RCED-92-37. 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

Wall, John Devin. 2017. “The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Zernike, Kate. 2015. “‘A Crazy Shake.’ Then Metal Tearing, and Chaos.” New York Times, May 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amaravadi 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Amaravadi 2011; Srygley and Thomas 2002).

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

Two authors: (Srygley and Thomas 2002)
Three authors: (Bhagat, Samanta, and Bhattacharya 2013)
4 or more authors: (de la Fuente-Fernández et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Journal of Social Work
Abbreviation	China J. Soc. Work
ISSN (print)	1752-5098
ISSN (online)	1752-5101
Scope	Health(social science) Sociology and Political Science