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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Social Work Journal. 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

Macilwain, C. (2013). Halt the avalanche of performance metrics. Nature, 500(7462), 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stefankiewicz, A. R., & Sanders, J. K. M. (2010). Chemistry. Harmony of the self-assembled spheres. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5982), 1115–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jonsson, G. E., Miljkovic, V., & Dmitriev, A. (2014). Nanoplasmon-enabled macroscopic thermal management. Scientific reports, 4, 5111.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Knill, E., Laflamme, R., Martinez, R., & Tseng, C. H. (2000). An algorithmic benchmark for quantum information processing. Nature, 404(6776), 368–370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gilmore, R., & Lefranc, M. (2011). The Topology of Chaos. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Iriondo, M. H., Paggi, J. C., & Parma, M. J. (Eds.). (2007). The Middle Paraná River: Limnology of a Subtropical Wetland. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Emani, C. (2014). The Effects of Transgenic Crops on Non-target Organisms. In M. R. Ahuja & K. G. Ramawat (Eds.), Biotechnology and Biodiversity (pp. 59–66). 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 Clinical Social Work Journal.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, November 6). Ancient Reptilian Sea Monster Also Took To Land. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-reptilian-sea-monster-also-took-land/. 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. (2014). Information Technology: HUD’s Expenditure Plan Satisfied Statutory Conditions; Sustained Controls and Modernization Approach Needed (No. GAO-14-283). 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

Holmberg, M. B. (2014). Alternative nitrogen for subsequent southern switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) production using cool-season legumes (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Chira, S. (2017, March 10). When Japan Had a Third Gender. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2013; Stefankiewicz and Sanders 2010).

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

Two authors: (Stefankiewicz and Sanders 2010)
Three or more authors: (Knill et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Social Work Journal
Abbreviation	Clin. Soc. Work J.
ISSN (print)	0091-1674
ISSN (online)	1573-3343
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)