How to format your references using the Global Social Welfare citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Social Welfare. 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

Cochrane, M. A. (2003). Fire science for rainforests. Nature, 421(6926), 913–919.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dupuy, T. J., & Kraus, A. L. (2013). Distances, luminosities, and temperatures of the coldest known substellar objects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6153), 1492–1495.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biankin, A. V., Piantadosi, S., & Hollingsworth, S. J. (2015). Patient-centric trials for therapeutic development in precision oncology. Nature, 526(7573), 361–370.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ranz, J. M., Castillo-Davis, C. I., Meiklejohn, C. D., & Hartl, D. L. (2003). Sex-dependent gene expression and evolution of the Drosophila transcriptome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5626), 1742–1745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ni, Z., Pacoret, C., Benosman, R., & Régnier, S. (2014). Haptic Feedback Teleoperation of Optical Tweezers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Berkling, K., Joseph, M., Meyer, B., & Nordio, M. (Eds.). (2009). Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development: Second International Conference, SEAFOOD 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2008. Revised Papers (Vol. 16). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wight, C. (2013). Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Social Morphogenesis (pp. 85–101). Dordrecht: 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 Global Social Welfare.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 11). Brains Can Make Decisions While We Sleep – Here They Are In Action. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-can-make-decisions-while-we-sleep-here-they-are-action/. 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. (2015). Information Technology: Library of Congress Needs to Implement Recommendations to Address Management Weaknesses (No. GAO-16-197T). 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

Litt, D. (2010). Social networking sites and adolescent alcohol use: The role of social images, social norms, and social comparison (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kelly, D. (1993, May 16). IN SHORT: NONFICTION. New York Times, p. 732.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cochrane 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Cochrane 2003; Dupuy and Kraus 2013).

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

Two authors: (Dupuy and Kraus 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ranz et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Social Welfare
Abbreviation	Glob. Soc. Welf.
ISSN (online)	2196-8799
Scope