How to format your references using the Critical and Radical Social Work citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical and Radical 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	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

Bonan, G.B. (2008) Forests and climate change: forcings, feedbacks, and the climate benefits of forests, Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5882), 1444–1449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nachev, P. and Husain, M. (2007) Comment on “Detecting awareness in the vegetative state,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5816), 1221; author reply 1221.

A journal article with 3 authors

Joliveau, E., Smith, J. and Wolfe, J. (2004) Acoustics: tuning of vocal tract resonance by sopranos, Nature, 427(6970), 116.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reynolds, L.E., Watson, A.R., Baker, M., et al (2010) Tumour angiogenesis is reduced in the Tc1 mouse model of Down’s syndrome, Nature, 465(7299), 813–817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storey, I.C. and Allan, A. (2008) A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Hurst, C.J. (ed.) (2016) The Mechanistic Benefits of Microbial Symbionts. Advances in Environmental Microbiology, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Roussillon, C., Gonzalez, A., Solà, J., et al (2011) “RT-SLAM: A Generic and Real-Time Visual SLAM Implementation.”, in Crowley, J.L., Draper, B.A. and Thonnat, M. (eds.), Computer Vision Systems: 8th International Conference, ICVS 2011, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 20-22, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp 31–40.

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 Critical and Radical Social Work.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013) Thinking Outside the Lab: The Ascent of Citizen Science, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/thinking-outside-lab-ascent-citizen-science/.

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) ADP, IRM & Telecommunications 1986. IMTEC-87-18, 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

Sutton, S.R. (2009) Freshman transition programs: Effect on ninth grade student preparedness, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Billard, M. (2010) At J. Crew’s Bridal Store, a Parisian Air, New York Times, 27 May, p E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonan, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Nachev and Husain, 2007; Bonan, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Nachev and Husain, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Reynolds et al, 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical and Radical Social Work
ISSN (print)	2049-8608
ISSN (online)	2049-8675
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