How to format your references using the China Journal of Social Work citation style

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

Betts, R. A. 2000. “Offset of the Potential Carbon Sink from Boreal Forestation by Decreases in Surface Albedo.” Nature 408 (6809): 187–190.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucadamo, G., and D. L. Medlin. 2003. “Geometric Origin of Hexagonal Close Packing at a Grain Boundary in Gold.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5623): 1272–1275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubi, Yonatan, Yigal Meir, and Yshai Avishai. 2007. “Nature of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Disordered Superconductors.” Nature 449 (7164): 876–880.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chow, Amy, Derek Toomre, Wendy Garrett, and Ira Mellman. 2002. “Dendritic Cell Maturation Triggers Retrograde MHC Class II Transport from Lysosomes to the Plasma Membrane.” Nature 418 (6901): 988–994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimann, Robert B. 2010. Classic and Advanced Ceramics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Nedjah, Nadia, Leandro dos Santos Coelho, and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, eds. 2010. Multi-Objective Swarm Intelligent Systems: Theory & Experiences. Vol. 261. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liang, Bing, Chong Chen, Ying-Hui Guan, and Xiao-Yu Huang. 2015. “Estimating the Missing Traffic Speeds via Continuous Conditional Random Fields.” In Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2015 Workshops, BSD, WDMA, and BDAT, Guangzhou, China, September 18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Ruichu Cai, Kang Chen, Liang Hong, Xiaoyan Yang, Rong Zhang, and Lei Zou, 35–43. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: 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 China Journal of Social Work.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. “Forget Lab-Grown Meat, Eating Insects Is Best For The Planet.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 8. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forget-labgrown-meat-eating-insects-is-best-for-the-planet/.

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. 1999. Satellite Control Systems: Opportunity for DOD to Implement Space Policy and Integrate Capabilities. NSIAD-99-81. 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

White, Bernadette D. 2015. “Implementation of Positive Behavior Intervention and Support at the High School Level.” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Saslow, Linda. 2006. “Where Scientists Are Made.” New York Times, January 29, 2006.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Betts 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Betts 2000; Lucadamo and Medlin 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lucadamo and Medlin 2003)
Three authors: (Dubi, Meir, and Avishai 2007)
4 or more authors: (Chow et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Journal of Social Work
Abbreviation	China J. Soc. Work
ISSN (print)	1752-5098
ISSN (online)	1752-5101
Scope	Health(social science) Sociology and Political Science