How to format your references using the Journal of Children and Poverty citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Children and Poverty. 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

Powell, Kendall. 2002. “Call for Clinical-Trial Reform Leaves Critics Unmoved.” Nature 419 (6907): 546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smock, Robert G., and Lila M. Gierasch. 2009. “Sending Signals Dynamically.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5924): 198–203.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gong, Shou-Shu, Wei Zhu, and D. N. Sheng. 2014. “Emergent Chiral Spin Liquid: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Kagome Heisenberg Model.” Scientific Reports 4 (September): 6317.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Savee, John D., Vadim A. Mozhayskiy, Jennifer E. Mann, Anna I. Krylov, and Robert E. Continetti. 2008. “The Role of Excited-State Topology in Three-Body Dissociation of Sym-Triazine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5890): 826–830.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, Andrew H., and John P. H. Reade. 2010. Herbicides and Plant Physiology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Bartolini Bussi, Maria G. 2006. Macchine Matematiche: Dalla Storia Alla Scuola. Edited by Michela Maschietto. Vol. 1. Convergenze. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Köthe, Ullrich. 2006. “Low-Level Feature Detection Using the Boundary Tensor.” In Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields, edited by Joachim Weickert and Hans Hagen, 63–79. Mathematics and Visualization. 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 Journal of Children and Poverty.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Unstoppable Robo-Roach Can Get Around Any Obstacle.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/velociroach/.

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. 2003. Airport Finance: Past Funding Levels May Not Be Sufficient to Cover Airports’ Planned Capital Development. GAO-03-497T. 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

Pratt, Jill Elizabeth. 2014. “Investigating Educational Systems, Leadership, and School Culture: A Holistic Approach.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Yablonsky, B. Y. Linda. 2008. “Body of Evidence.” New York Times, August 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2002; Smock and Gierasch 2009).

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

Two authors: (Smock and Gierasch 2009)
Three authors: (Gong, Zhu, and Sheng 2014)
4 or more authors: (Savee et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Children and Poverty
Abbreviation	J. Child. Poverty
ISSN (print)	1079-6126
ISSN (online)	1469-9389
Scope