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

Butler, Declan. 2005. “China Rejects Internet Claims of Human Cases.” Nature 435 (7042): 542–543.

A journal article with 2 authors

Destexhe, Alain, and Diego Contreras. 2006. “Neuronal Computations with Stochastic Network States.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5796): 85–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qian, Hong, Xianli Wang, and Yangjian Zhang. 2012. “Comment on ‘Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6076): 1573; author reply 1573.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Davidson, Alan J., Patricia Ernst, Yuan Wang, Marcus P. S. Dekens, Paul D. Kingsley, James Palis, Stanley J. Korsmeyer, George Q. Daley, and Leonard I. Zon. 2003. “Cdx4 Mutants Fail to Specify Blood Progenitors and Can Be Rescued by Multiple Hox Genes.” Nature 425 (6955): 300–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, Dan. 2010. The Future of Finance. 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Hagener, Malte, Vinzenz Hediger, and Alena Strohmaier, eds. 2016. The State of Post-Cinema: Tracing the Moving Image in the Age of Digital Dissemination. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Sencha, Alexander N., Elena V. Evseeva, Mikhail S. Mogutov, and Yury N. Patrunov. 2013. “Ultrasound Diagnosis of Breast Cancer.” In Breast Ultrasound, edited by Elena V. Evseeva, Mikhail S. Mogutov, and Yury N. Patrunov, 49–122. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “10 Real Planets That Are Stranger Than Science Fiction.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/10-real-planets-are-stranger-science-fiction/.

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. 2001. Survey of NASA’s Lessons Learned Process. GAO-01-1015R. 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

Tablason, Jamie Meckel. 2014. “Recollecting.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Paulson, Michael. 2017. “‘Hamilton’ Tries New Tactic to Battle Bots and Scalpers.” New York Times, August 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2005; Destexhe and Contreras 2006).

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

Two authors: (Destexhe and Contreras 2006)
Three authors: (Qian, Wang, and Zhang 2012)
4 or more authors: (Davidson et al. 2003)

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