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

Curl, Robert F. 2005. “Obituary: Richard E. Smalley (1943-2005).” Nature 438 (7071): 1094.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cosson, S., and M. P. Lutolf. 2014. “Hydrogel Microfluidics for the Patterning of Pluripotent Stem Cells.” Scientific Reports 4 (March): 4462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sang, Liyun, Hilary A. Coller, and James M. Roberts. 2008. “Control of the Reversibility of Cellular Quiescence by the Transcriptional Repressor HES1.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5892): 1095–1100.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gregory, Richard I., Kai-Ping Yan, Govindasamy Amuthan, Thimmaiah Chendrimada, Behzad Doratotaj, Neil Cooch, and Ramin Shiekhattar. 2004. “The Microprocessor Complex Mediates the Genesis of MicroRNAs.” Nature 432 (7014): 235–240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Westermeier, Reiner. 2004. Electrophoresis in Practice. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ghaoui, Claude, Mitu Jain, Vivek Bannore, and Lakhmi C. Jain, eds. 2005. Knowledge-Based Virtual Education. Vol. 178. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Casciati, Fabio, and Zhicong Chen. 2010. “Using GPS Sensors in Structural Mechanics.” In Mechanics and Model-Based Control of Smart Materials and Structures, edited by Hans Irschik, Michael Krommer, Kazumi Watanabe, and Toshio Furukawa, 29–38. Vienna: 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

Davis, Josh. 2016. “Very Hot Drinks ‘Probably’ Cause Cancer, Says The World Health Organization.” 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. 1987. Motor Vehicle Safety: A Review of the NTSB Report on Rear Seat Lap Belt Effectiveness. RCED-88-13. 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

Charles, Jean-Gresset. 2017. “African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2006. “Supreme Court to Weigh Award in a Smoker’s Death.” New York Times, May 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Curl 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Curl 2005; Cosson and Lutolf 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cosson and Lutolf 2014)
Three authors: (Sang, Coller, and Roberts 2008)
4 or more authors: (Gregory et al. 2004)

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