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

Zheludev, N. I. (2010). Applied physics. The road ahead for metamaterials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5978), 582–583.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zoncu, R., & Sabatini, D. M. (2011). Cell biology. The TASCC of secretion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6032), 923–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benham-Pyle, B. W., Pruitt, B. L., & Nelson, W. J. (2015). Cell adhesion. Mechanical strain induces E-cadherin-dependent Yap1 and β-catenin activation to drive cell cycle entry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6238), 1024–1027.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Merchant, R. R., Edwards, J. T., Qin, T., Kruszyk, M. M., Bi, C., Che, G., Bao, D.-H., Qiao, W., Sun, L., Collins, M. R., Fadeyi, O. O., Gallego, G. M., Mousseau, J. J., Nuhant, P., & Baran, P. S. (2018). Modular radical cross-coupling with sulfones enables access to sp3-rich (fluoro)alkylated scaffolds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6384), 75–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krichen, S., & Chaouachi, J. (2014). Graph-Related Optimization and Decision Support Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Halliday, M. A. K. (2016). Aspects of Language and Learning (J. J. Webster, Ed.; 1st ed. 2016). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wille, R., & Drechsler, R. (2010). Embedding of Irreversible Functions. In R. Drechsler (Ed.), Towards a Design Flow for Reversible Logic (pp. 93–111). Springer Netherlands.

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. (2013, November 27). Stone-Tipped Spears Were Around Before Homo Sapiens. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stone-tipped-spears-were-around-homo-sapiens/

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. (1988). Guaranteed Student Loans: Potential Default and Cost Reduction Options (HRD-88-52BR). 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

Jorge, M. H. (2004). Relationships Among Poverty, Financial Services, Human Capital, Risk Coping, and Natural Resources: Evidence from El Salvador and Bolivia [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

SOPHIA PECK ROSS.RICHARD F. BLOUGH.HUGH ARCHBALD.ALEXANDER ROYDEN.RAPHAEL.SPENCER B. WITTY.CARL R. KLEIN, Tilis, L. B., & JOSEPH A. CELESTE.JONATHAN ESTOFF.GEORGES SCHREIBER.THOMAS J. BARNUM.ALLAN C. INMAN. (1950, January 22). Letters; NOT CITY GUIDES TO THE PEOPLE GOP TROUBLE GRACE AND CHARM HOWL WITTY, TOO A BAS “ERPIVORI” OLD HAT FOREIGN SERVICE HERITAGE. New York Times, The New York Times Magazine151.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zheludev, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zheludev, 2010; Zoncu & Sabatini, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Zoncu & Sabatini, 2011)
Three authors: (Benham-Pyle et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Merchant et al., 2018)

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