How to format your references using the Critical and Radical Social Work citation style

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

Dalton, R. (2001) Transgenic corn found growing in Mexico, Nature, 413(6854): 337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cannon, C.P. and Cannon, P.J. (2012) Physiology. COX-2 inhibitors and cardiovascular risk, Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6087): 1386–1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hammami, A., Raymond, N. and Armand, M. (2003) Lithium-ion batteries: runaway risk of forming toxic compounds, Nature, 424(6949): 635–636.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Riehle, M.M., Guelbeogo, W.M., Gneme, A., Eiglmeier, K., Holm, I., Bischoff, E., et al (2011) A cryptic subgroup of Anopheles gambiae is highly susceptible to human malaria parasites, Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6017): 596–598.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chassaing, R. (2004) Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the C6713 and C6416 DSK, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Snyder, C. (2010) Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses. Second Edition. Myer, T. and Southwell, M. (eds), Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Jentsch, C., Schlosser, F. and Beimborn, D. (2015) Applying a Configurational Approach for Explaining the Role of Relationship Quality for Successful Outsourcing Arrangements., in I. Oshri, J. Kotlarsky and L.P. Willcocks (eds) Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices: 9th Global Sourcing Workshop 2015, La Thuile, Italy, February 18-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, . Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer International Publishing, pp 62–82.

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 Critical and Radical Social Work.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015) 20 Million-Year-Old Salamander Found Preserved In Amber, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/salamander-found-preserved-amber-first-ever-have-been-found/.

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 (2012) Information Technology Dashboard: Opportunities Exist to Improve Transparency and Oversight of Investment Risk at Select Agencies. GAO-13-98, 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

Santos, E. (2019) Altruism in Psychotherapy: Altruistic Acts as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Hodgman, J. (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times, 14 April, p MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton, 2001; Cannon and Cannon, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Cannon and Cannon, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Riehle et al, 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Critical and Radical Social Work
ISSN (print)	2049-8608
ISSN (online)	2049-8675
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