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

Gutscher, M.-A. (2004). Geoscience. What caused the great Lisbon earthquake? Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5688), 1247–1248.

A journal article with 2 authors

Royer, S., & Paré, D. (2003). Conservation of total synaptic weight through balanced synaptic depression and potentiation. Nature, 422(6931), 518–522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zikherman, J., Parameswaran, R., & Weiss, A. (2012). Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells. Nature, 489(7414), 160–164.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, K., Kim, M.-J., Kim, S.-I., & Jang, J.-H. (2013). Towards visible light hydrogen generation: quantum dot-sensitization via efficient light harvesting of hybrid-TiO2. Scientific reports, 3, 3330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ippolito, L. J., Jr. (2008). Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Emerald, E., Rinehart, R. E., & Garcia, A. (Eds.). (2016). Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Rogers, E., Galkowski, K., & Owens, D. H. (2007). Robustness. In K. Galkowski & D. H. Owens (Eds.), Control Systems Theory and Applications for Linear Repetitive Processes (pp. 141–175). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Global Social Welfare.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, June 7). 2016 Had The Biggest Rise In US Drug Overdose Deaths Ever. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/2016-had-the-biggest-rise-in-us-drug-overdose-deaths-ever/. 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. (2014). Space Acquisitions: Acquisition Management Continues to Improve but Challenges Persist for Current and Future Programs (No. GAO-14-382T). 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

Schoettler, M. R. (2017). A Publish-Subscribe Framework for Embedded Systems: Simplifying the Development Process (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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, R. E. (2017, May 9). An agenda for South Korea’s new leader. New York Times, p. 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gutscher 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gutscher 2004; Royer and Paré 2003).

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

Two authors: (Royer and Paré 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

About the journal

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

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