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

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

Mank, J. E. (2009). Evolution. Sexual selection and Darwin’s mystery of mysteries. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5960), 1639–1640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wallenfang, M. R., & Seydoux, G. (2000). Polarization of the anterior-posterior axis of C. elegans is a microtubule-directed process. Nature, 408(6808), 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behie, S. W., Zelisko, P. M., & Bidochka, M. J. (2012). Endophytic insect-parasitic fungi translocate nitrogen directly from insects to plants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6088), 1576–1577.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hanayama, R., Tanaka, M., Miyasaka, K., Aozasa, K., Koike, M., Uchiyama, Y., & Nagata, S. (2004). Autoimmune disease and impaired uptake of apoptotic cells in MFG-E8-deficient mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5674), 1147–1150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eric G., F., & Yvonne, R. (2015). Growing Pains. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mombaur, K., & Berns, K. (Eds.). (2013). Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Bipedal Walking (Vol. 18). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ventosa, A., Mellado, E., Sanchez-Porro, C., & Marquez, M. C. (2008). Halophilic and Halotolerant Micro-Organisms from Soils. In P. Dion & C. S. Nautiyal (Eds.), Microbiology of Extreme Soils (pp. 87–115). 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 European Journal of Social Work.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 8). Incredible New Photos Of Pluto Show Blue Skies And Water Ice. 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. (2014). Army Networks: Select Programs Are Utilizing Competition to Varying Degrees (GAO-14-460). 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

Liao, X. (2006). Creative Learning for Intelligent Robots [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Saslow, L. (2008, January 20). Young, Female, Energetic and, Now, Dean. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mank, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mank, 2009; Wallenfang & Seydoux, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Wallenfang & Seydoux, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Hanayama et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Social Work
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Soc. Work
ISSN (print)	1369-1457
ISSN (online)	1468-2664
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science