How to format your references using the Nordic Social Work Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nordic Social Work Research. 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

Hunt, James H. 2003. “Ecology. Cryptic Herbivores of the Rainforest Canopy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5621): 916–917.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jellinek, A. Mark, and Michael Manga. 2002. “The Influence of a Chemical Boundary Layer on the Fixity, Spacing and Lifetime of Mantle Plumes.” Nature 418 (6899): 760–763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Malinowski, Justin T., Robert J. Sharpe, and Jeffrey S. Johnson. 2013. “Enantioselective Synthesis of Pactamycin, a Complex Antitumor Antibiotic.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6129): 180–182.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pezo, V., D. Louis, V. Guérineau, J-P Le Caer, L. Gaillon, R. Mutzel, and P. Marlière. 2013. “A Metabolic Prototype for Eliminating Tryptophan from the Genetic Code.” Scientific Reports 3: 1359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, Weston M. 2010. Fusion. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Urzaiz, Gabriel, Sergio F. Ochoa, José Bravo, Liming Luke Chen, and Jonice Oliveira, eds. 2013. Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Context-Awareness and Context-Driven Interaction: 7th International Conference, UCAmI 2013, Carrillo, Costa Rica, December 2-6, 2013, Proceedings. Vol. 8276. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Morgan, Carroll. 2012. “Elementary Probability Theory in the Eindhoven Style.” In Mathematics of Program Construction: 11th International Conference, MPC 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, edited by Jeremy Gibbons and Pablo Nogueira, 48–73. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Nordic Social Work Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. “Metallic Glass Alloys Could Be Stronger Than Steel But As Malleable As Putty.” IFLScience. 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. 2001. Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) Implementation Issues. GAO-01-958R. 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

Brown, Laura Therese. 2009. “Identifying Potential Co-Repressors Associated with Dexamethasone-Induced Repression of the MUC5AC Gene.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Hodgman, John. 2016. “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman.” New York Times, August 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hunt 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hunt 2003; Jellinek and Manga 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jellinek and Manga 2002)
Three authors: (Malinowski, Sharpe, and Johnson 2013)
4 or more authors: (Pezo et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nordic Social Work Research
Abbreviation	Nord. Soc. Work Res.
ISSN (print)	2156-857X
ISSN (online)	2156-8588
Scope