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

Blumenthal, D. (2005). Ecology. Interrelated causes of plant invasion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5746), 243–244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Entcheva, E., & Williams, J. C. (2014). Channelrhodopsin2 current during the action potential: “optical AP clamp” and approximation. Scientific Reports, 4, 5838.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Loenhout, M. T. J., de Grunt, M. V., & Dekker, C. (2012). Dynamics of DNA supercoils. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 94–97.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dessaud, E., Yang, L. L., Hill, K., Cox, B., Ulloa, F., Ribeiro, A., Mynett, A., Novitch, B. G., & Briscoe, J. (2007). Interpretation of the sonic hedgehog morphogen gradient by a temporal adaptation mechanism. Nature, 450(7170), 717–720.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duffy, D. J. (2006). Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Richter, M. M. (2013). Case-Based Reasoning: A Textbook (R. O. Weber, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, J., & Chen, W. (2010). A Novel Localization System Based on Infrared Vision for Outdoor Mobile Robot. In K. Li, L. Jia, X. Sun, M. Fei, & G. W. Irwin (Eds.), Life System Modeling and Intelligent Computing: International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2010, Wuxi, China, September 17-20, 2010. Proceedings, Part III (pp. 33–41). 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

Luntz, S. (2015, February 10). Travel Through The Solar System At The Speed Of Light. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-system-speed-light/

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. (1991). Air Traffic Control: Software Problems at Control Centers Need Immediate Attention (IMTEC-92-1). 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

O’Connell, M. (2010). Escaping intersections [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Greenhouse, L. (2005, November 10). Roberts Court Hears Its First Case in Federalism Debate. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blumenthal, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Blumenthal, 2005; Entcheva & Williams, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Entcheva & Williams, 2014)
Three authors: (van Loenhout et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Dessaud et al., 2007)

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