How to format your references using the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Human Rights and Social Work. 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

Polyakov, V. B. (2009). Equilibrium iron isotope fractionation at core-mantle boundary conditions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5916), 912–914.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gulden, F. O., & Šestan, N. (2014). Neurobiology: building a bigger brain. Nature, 515(7526), 206–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rajagopalan, J., Han, J. H., & Saif, M. T. A. (2007). Plastic deformation recovery in freestanding nanocrystalline aluminum and gold thin films. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1831–1834.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lecrenier, M. C., Ledoux, Q., Berben, G., Fumière, O., Saegerman, C., Baeten, V., & Veys, P. (2014). Determination of the ruminant origin of bone particles using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Scientific reports, 4, 5730.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy, R. (2010). Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gulizia, M. M. (Ed.). (2007). Current News in Cardiology: Proceedings of the Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting (Taormina, May 20–22, 2007). Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Angelini, P., Da Lozzo, G., Di Battista, G., & Frati, F. (2013). Strip Planarity Testing. In S. Wismath & A. Wolff (Eds.), Graph Drawing: 21st International Symposium, GD 2013, Bordeaux, France, September 23-25, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 37–48). 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 Journal of Human Rights and Social Work.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 9). How To Make Edible Water Bottles. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/how-make-edible-water-bottles/. 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. (1989). Barriers to Competition in the Airline Industry (No. T-RCED-89-65). 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

Haws, S. W. (2012). A multilevel study of schools’ influences on adolescent substance use (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Blecher, G. (2014, August 10). In Pursuit of the Perfect Pie. New York Times, p. LI10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Polyakov 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gulden and Šestan 2014; Polyakov 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gulden and Šestan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lecrenier et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Human Rights and Social Work
Abbreviation	J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work
ISSN (online)	2365-1792
Scope