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

Socha, J. J. (2002). Gliding flight in the paradise tree snake. Nature, 418(6898), 603–604.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fialko, Y., & Pearse, J. (2012). Sombrero uplift above the Altiplano-Puna Magma Body: evidence of a ballooning mid-crustal diapir. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 250–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ridgwell, A. J., Kennedy, M. J., & Caldeira, K. (2003). Carbonate deposition, climate stability, and Neoproterozoic ice ages. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5646), 859–862.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gomis-Rüth, F. X., Moncalián, G., Pérez-Luque, R., González, A., Cabezón, E., de la Cruz, F., & Coll, M. (2001). The bacterial conjugation protein TrwB resembles ring helicases and F1-ATPase. Nature, 409(6820), 637–641.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger, H. (2017). Enzyme Kinetics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Fairbanks, C. A., & J, M. P. D. T. (Eds.). (2014). Neurobiological Studies of Addiction in Chronic Pain States (Vol. 17). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Black, A. P., Bruce, K. B., & Noble, J. (2016). The Essence of Inheritance. In S. Lindley, C. McBride, P. Trinder, & D. Sannella (Eds.), A List of Successes That Can Change the World: Essays Dedicated to Philip Wadler on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (pp. 73–94). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, D. (2016, October 25). How Pharmaceutical Companies Profit From Drugs For Rare Diseases. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-pharmaceutical-companies-profit-from-drugs-for-rare-diseases/. 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. (2011). Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Temporary Emergency Impact Aid Provided Education Support for Displaced Students (No. GAO-11-839). 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

Thompson, T. (2010). Assessing the determinants of information technology adoption in Jamaica’s public sector using the technology acceptance model (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, June 30). With Colon Free and Pitchers Hurt, Mets’ Future Could Lie in Their Past. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Socha 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Fialko and Pearse 2012; Socha 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fialko and Pearse 2012)
Three or more authors: (Gomis-Rüth et al. 2001)

About the journal

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