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

Venema, L. (2011). Silicon electronics and beyond. Nature, 479(7373), 309.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster, K. R., & Ratnieks, F. L. (2000). Facultative worker policing in a wasp. Nature, 407(6805), 692–693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bahmani, B., Bacon, D., & Anvari, B. (2013). Erythrocyte-derived photo-theranostic agents: hybrid nano-vesicles containing indocyanine green for near infrared imaging and therapeutic applications. Scientific reports, 3, 2180.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, C.-W., Corboy, M. J., DeMartino, G. N., & Thomas, P. J. (2003). Endoproteolytic activity of the proteasome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 408–411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rieth, M., & Krämer, N. (2016). Hygiene in der Arzneimittelproduktion. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Duffuaa, S. O. (2015). Planning and Control of Maintenance Systems: Modelling and Analysis. (A. Raouf, Ed.) (2nd ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu, L., Liu, X., Petinakis, E., Dean, K., & Bateman, S. (2013). Starch Based Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites. In S. Thomas, P. M. Visakh, & A. P. Mathew (Eds.), Advances in Natural Polymers: Composites and Nanocomposites (pp. 121–154). 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 Human Rights and Social Work.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, July 16). Jupiter Twin Found Orbiting Sun-like Star. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/jupiter-twin-found-orbiting-sun-star-could-herald-discovery-solar-system-20/. 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. (2008). Information Technology: Management Improvements Needed on the Department of Homeland Security’s Next Generation Information Sharing System (No. GAO-09-40). 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

Ballard, K. J. (2012). Frequent factors for psychiatric hospital readmission (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, C. (2007, May 6). State Using Green Funds to Buy Parcel in Arrow Park. New York Times, p. WE6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Venema 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Foster and Ratnieks 2000; Venema 2011).

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

Two authors: (Foster and Ratnieks 2000)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2003)

About the journal

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