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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Helgen, Kristofer M. 2011. “Evolution. The Mammal Family Tree.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6055): 458–459.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siefermann, Katrin R., and Bernd Abel. 2010. “Chemistry. Ion Chemistry Mediated by Water Networks.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5963): 280–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fuller, Patrick M., Jun Lu, and Clifford B. Saper. 2008. “Differential Rescue of Light- and Food-Entrainable Circadian Rhythms.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5879): 1074–1077.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xiang, Yang, Benoit Laurent, Chih-Hung Hsu, Sigrid Nachtergaele, Zhike Lu, Wanqiang Sheng, Chuanyun Xu, et al. 2017. “Corrigendum: RNA m6A Methylation Regulates the Ultraviolet-Induced DNA Damage Response.” Nature 552 (7685): 430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo, Gonzalo, and Miguel A. García-Martín. 2006. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Novitsky, Yuri W., ed. 2016. Hernia Surgery: Current Principles. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Elgazzar, Abdelhamid H., and Magda Elmonayeri. 2006. “Inflammation.” In The Pathophysiologic Basis of Nuclear Medicine, edited by Abdelhamid H. Elgazzar, 67–89. 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. 2016. “It’s One Year Until A Total Solar Eclipse Sweeps Across America.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 19. https://www.iflscience.com/space/its-one-year-until-a-total-solar-eclipse-sweeps-across-america/.

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. Voters With Disabilities: Access to Polling Places and Alternative Voting Methods. GAO-02-107. 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

Ortega, Rafaela. 2012. “Effects of Cultural and Linguistic Differences in Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors among Elderly Latina Women.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2016. “Kerber Loses Final and Bid for No. 1 Spot.” New York Times, August 22, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Helgen 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Helgen 2011; Siefermann and Abel 2010).

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

Two authors: (Siefermann and Abel 2010)
Three authors: (Fuller, Lu, and Saper 2008)
4 or more authors: (Xiang et al. 2017)

About the journal

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