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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical 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

Krot, A. N. (2011). Planetary science. Bringing part of an asteroid back home. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6046), 1098–1099.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters, D. H., & Bloom, G. (2012). Developing world: Bring order to unregulated health markets. Nature, 487(7406), 163–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, R. R., Krause, D. W., & Curry Rogers, K. (2003). Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus. Nature, 422(6931), 515–518.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Harris, R. A., Hempel de Ibarra, N., Graham, P., & Collett, T. S. (2005). Ant navigation: priming of visual route memories. Nature, 438(7066), 302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, A., & Dafydd, H. (2014). Key Notes on Plastic Surgery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Book, M. (2016). Tamed Agility: Pragmatic Contracting and Collaboration in Agile Software Projects. (V. Gruhn & R. Striemer, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Beattie, M., Bulacu, D., & Raianu, Ş. (2008). Balanced Bilinear Forms for Corings. In T. Brzeziński, J. L. Gómez Pardo, I. Shestakov, & P. F. Smith (Eds.), Modules and Comodules (pp. 87–99). Basel: Birkhäuser.

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 Clinical Social Work Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, November 15). This Is The Message We Have Sent To Aliens. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-message-aliens/. 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. (2003). Data Mining: Results and Challenges for Government Program Audits and Investigations (No. GAO-03-591T). 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

Sitterding, M. C. (2014). Situation awareness and the selection of interruption handling strategies during the medication administration process: A qualitative study (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, August 17). C.E.O.s Long Avoided Politics. Trump Is Changing the Calculus. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krot 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Krot 2011; Peters and Bloom 2012).

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

Two authors: (Peters and Bloom 2012)
Three or more authors: (Harris et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Social Work Journal
Abbreviation	Clin. Soc. Work J.
ISSN (print)	0091-1674
ISSN (online)	1573-3343
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)