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

Kahan, D. (2010). Fixing the communications failure. Nature, 463(7279), 296–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strahl, B. D., & Allis, C. D. (2000). The language of covalent histone modifications. Nature, 403(6765), 41–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

D’Orazio, D. J., Haiman, Z., & Schiminovich, D. (2015). Relativistic boost as the cause of periodicity in a massive black-hole binary candidate. Nature, 525(7569), 351–353.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Milne, G. A., Davis, J. L., Mitrovica, J. X., Scherneck, H. G., Johansson, J. M., Vermeer, M., & Koivula, H. (2001). Space-geodetic constraints on glacial isostatic adjustment in Fennoscandia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5512), 2381–2385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen, S., & Huang, P. (2017). Principles of Tribology. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Amaldi, A., & Tang, F. (Eds.). (2014). Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Thermoelectrics: ECT 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin, P.-C. K., & Khatri, S. P. (2014). ATPG for Cancer Therapy. In S. P. Khatri (Ed.), Logic Synthesis for Genetic Diseases: Modeling Disease Behavior Using Boolean Networks (pp. 77–92). New York, NY: 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 Clinical Social Work Journal.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, June 11). Paris Syndrome: The Mental Disorder Caused By Visiting The City Of Love. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/paris-syndrome-the-mental-disorder-caused-by-visiting-the-city-of-love/. 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. (2012). Student and Exchange Visitor Program: DHS Needs to Take Actions to Strengthen Monitoring of Schools (No. GAO-12-895T). 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

Crump, S. (2015). The efficacy of an academic behavior assessment tool for the functional behavior assessment process (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006, March 26). In Great Neck, a Debate On Firefighter Housing. New York Times, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kahan 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kahan 2010; Strahl and Allis 2000).

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

Two authors: (Strahl and Allis 2000)
Three or more authors: (Milne et al. 2001)

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)