How to format your references using the Social Work Education citation style

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

Weinstock, G. M. (2012). Genomic approaches to studying the human microbiota. Nature, 489(7415), 250–256.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance, S. A., & Sandros, M. G. (2014). Zeptomole detection of C-reactive protein in serum by a nanoparticle amplified surface plasmon resonance imaging aptasensor. Scientific Reports, 4, 5129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wisniewski, W., Patschger, M., & Rüssel, C. (2013). Viscous fingering and dendritic growth of surface crystallized Sr2TiSi2O8 fresnoite. Scientific Reports, 3, 3558.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Adams, R. B., Jr, Gordon, H. L., Baird, A. A., Ambady, N., & Kleck, R. E. (2003). Effects of gaze on amygdala sensitivity to anger and fear faces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dant, S. (2016). Losing Eden. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fung, E. B., Bachrach, L. K., & Sawyer, A. J. (Eds.). (2016). Bone Health Assessment in Pediatrics: Guidelines for Clinical Practice (2nd ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pinho, A. J., Pratas, D., & Ferreira, P. J. S. G. (2014). A New Compressor for Measuring Distances among Images. In A. Campilho & M. Kamel (Eds.), Image Analysis and Recognition: 11th International Conference, ICIAR 2014, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 22-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 30–37). Springer International Publishing.

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 Social Work Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 15). Plants “Communicate” Using Molecular Language. 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. (1996). Airport Privatization: Issues Related to the Sale or Lease of U.S. Commercial Airports (RCED-97-3). 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

Maddirala, R. R. (2010). Secure file transfers using mobile device [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

Saslow, L. (2006, October 8). Suozzi Offers Plan to Shore Up Aviation Museum. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinstock, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Vance & Sandros, 2014; Weinstock, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Vance & Sandros, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Adams et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Work Education
Abbreviation	Soc. Work Educ.
ISSN (print)	0261-5479
ISSN (online)	1470-1227
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education