How to format your references using the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal citation style

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

Kanthor, R. (2014). Diagnostics: Detection drives defence. Nature, 509(7498), S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vitetta, E. S., & Ghetie, V. F. (2006). Immunology. Considering therapeutic antibodies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5785), 308–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolfe, N. D., Dunavan, C. P., & Diamond, J. (2007). Origins of major human infectious diseases. Nature, 447(7142), 279–283.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Miyazaki, M., Fujii, A., Ebata, T., & Mikami, N. (2004). Infrared spectroscopic evidence for protonated water clusters forming nanoscale cages. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5674), 1134–1137.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, N. P. (2010). Process Engineering for a Small Planet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Knapp, C., Madden, V., & Fowler-Kerry, S. (Eds.). (2012). Pediatric Palliative Care: Global Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaneko, M., Izumi, H., Kitahara, K., Abe, T., Fukazawa, K., Sekiguchi, M., et al. (2008). A Simple Method of the ${\rm\kern-.15em T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}$ Surface Drawing Suitable for Teaching Materials with the Aid of CAS. In M. Bubak, G. D. van Albada, J. Dongarra, & P. M. A. Sloot (Eds.), Computational Science – ICCS 2008: 8th International Conference, Kraków, Poland, June 23-25, 2008, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 35–45). 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 Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 29). Quantum Computer Makes Finding New Physics More Difficult. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-computer-makes-finding-new-physics-more-difficult/. 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. (2007). Transportation Accessibility: Lack of Data and Limited Enforcement Options Limit Federal Oversight (No. GAO-07-1126). 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

Smith, J. A. (2010). Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Shpigel, B. (2016, September 26). So Many Turnovers, Jets Lose Count, and the Game. New York Times, p. D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kanthor 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kanthor 2014; Vitetta and Ghetie 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vitetta and Ghetie 2006)
Three or more authors: (Miyazaki et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
Abbreviation	Child Adolesc. Social Work J.
ISSN (print)	0738-0151
ISSN (online)	1573-2797
Scope	General Social Sciences Social Sciences (miscellaneous)