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

Caplan, Arthur. 2004. “Bioethics. Is Biomedical Research Too Dangerous to Pursue?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5661): 1142.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevenson, I. R., and D. M. Bryant. 2000. “Climate Change and Constraints on Breeding.” Nature 406 (6794): 366–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pocock, Michael J. O., Darren M. Evans, and Jane Memmott. 2012. “The Robustness and Restoration of a Network of Ecological Networks.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6071): 973–977.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Knapp, Alan K., Philip A. Fay, John M. Blair, Scott L. Collins, Melinda D. Smith, Jonathan D. Carlisle, Christopher W. Harper, Brett T. Danner, Michelle S. Lett, and James K. McCarron. 2002. “Rainfall Variability, Carbon Cycling, and Plant Species Diversity in a Mesic Grassland.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5601): 2202–2205.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Myatt, Glenn J., and Wayne P. Johnson. 2011. Making Sense of Data III. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pickering, Robert. 2016. Beginning F# 4.0. Edited by Kit Eason. 2nd ed. 2016. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

GIZ GmbH. 2015. “Success Factor – Strategy.” In Cooperation Management for Practitioners: Managing Social Change with Capacity WORKS, edited by Giz GmbH, 42–51. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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

Hale, Tom. 2017. “Scientists Find Fish Not Seen Since The 1870s. There’s Something Rather Strange About It.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/faceless-fish-rediscovered-in-australia-after-not-being-seen-since-the-1870s/.

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. 1989. Education Information: Production and Quality Deserve Increased Attention. T-PEMD-90-7. 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

Linsenmeyer, Justin Paul. 2017. “A Nice Place to Live and Work: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Residential Life Living-Learning Community and Employment Model at a Top-Tier Midwestern University.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Baseball; Rainout Gives Injured Mets More Rest.” New York Times, July 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caplan 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Caplan 2004; Stevenson and Bryant 2000).

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

Two authors: (Stevenson and Bryant 2000)
Three authors: (Pocock, Evans, and Memmott 2012)
4 or more authors: (Knapp et al. 2002)

About the journal

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