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

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

McGrayne, S.B. (2002) Portraits of science. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!, Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5569), 851–852.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scolnick, D.M. and Halazonetis, T.D. (2000) Chfr defines a mitotic stress checkpoint that delays entry into metaphase, Nature, 406(6794), 430–435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominici, F., Greenstone, M. and Sunstein, C.R. (2014) Science and regulation. Particulate matter matters, Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6181), 257–259.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ghosh, A., Le, V.T., Bae, J.J., et al (2013) TLM-PSD model for optimization of energy and power density of vertically aligned carbon nanotube supercapacitor, Scientific reports, 3, 2939.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayuela Valencia, R. (2013) The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lebow, R.N. (ed.) (2016) Richard Ned Lebow: Key Texts in Political Psychology and International Relations Theory. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Grönlund, H.-E., Francis, C. and Grimes, S. (2012) “Motion Recipes.”, in Francis, C. and Grimes, S. (eds.), iOS 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Berkeley, CA: Apress. pp 217–242.

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 Poverty and Social Justice.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015) New Oviraptorosaur Discovered at Railroad Construction Site in China, IFLScience.

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 (2014) Federal Vehicle Collisions and Aftermarket Collision Avoidance Technologies. GAO-14-408R, 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

Roettger, M.E. (2008) Three essays on social inequality and the U.S. criminal justice system, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Musto, M. (2017) Spinning a Hypnotic Beat, New York Times, 28 June, p D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGrayne, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Scolnick and Halazonetis, 2000; McGrayne, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Scolnick and Halazonetis, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ghosh et al, 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
ISSN (print)	1759-8273
ISSN (online)	1759-8281
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