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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Fact or fiction? Nature, 425(6954), 219.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuper, R., & Kröpelin, S. (2006). Climate-controlled Holocene occupation in the Sahara: motor of Africa’s evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5788), 803–807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y. V., Ni, J., & Montell, C. (2013). The molecular basis for attractive salt-taste coding in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6138), 1334–1338.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mickelson, W., Aloni, S., Han, W.-Q., Cumings, J., & Zettl, A. (2003). Packing C60 in boron nitride nanotubes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5618), 467–469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, M., McKimm, J., & Forrest, K. (2013). How to Assess Doctors and Health Professionals. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rider, S., Hasselberg, Y., & Waluszewski, A. (Eds.). (2013). Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market: The Breakdown of Scientific Thought (Vol. 39). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Koepsell, D. (2014). Synthetic Biology and IP: How Do Definitions of “Products of Nature” Affect their Implications for Health? In I. de Miguel Beriain & C. M. Romeo Casabona (Eds.), Synbio and Human Health: A Challenge to the Current IP Framework? (pp. 45–53). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Fang, J. (2014, May 8). The Closest Hypervelocity Star Ever Seen. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/closest-hypervelocity-star-ever-seen/. 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. (1991). Air Traffic Control: Voice Communications System Challenges Continue (No. IMTEC-91-49). 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

Graves, K. A. (2012). An Exploration of Organizational Commitment among Generation X Leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Gregory, P. (2013, November 7). This Close to a Killer. New York Times, p. MM36.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kuper and Kröpelin 2006; Smaglik 2003).

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

Two authors: (Kuper and Kröpelin 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mickelson 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