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

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

Davis, G. (2005). Scientists and societies. Planning for a positive postdoc. Nature, 434(7037), 1162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao, X., & Jiang, L. (2004). Biophysics: water-repellent legs of water striders. Nature, 432(7013), 36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, J. F., Stoner, G. R., & Reynolds, J. H. (2004). Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry. Nature, 429(6990), 410–413.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dahl, C. D., Rasch, M. J., Tomonaga, M., & Adachi, I. (2013). The face inversion effect in non-human primates revisited - an investigation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Scientific Reports, 3, 2504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marroni, L., & Perdomo, I. (2013). Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Merbach, W. (2007). The Long-Term Fertilization Trials in Halle (Saale), Germany: A Tool for Sustainable and Environmentally Compatible Land Management — Contributions of Plant Nutrition Science in Halle 13 (A. Deubel, Ed.; 2nd revised Edition). DUV.

A chapter in an edited book

Krogh, L., & Cold, G. E. (2008). Comparative Studies of Intracranial Pressure in Patients With and Without Space-Occupying Lesions. In G. E. Cold & N. Juul (Eds.), Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery (pp. 77–87). 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 European Journal of Social Work.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 14). These Headphones Transmit Sound Into Your Skull. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bone-conducting-headphones/

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). Export Controls: International Space Station Technology Transfers (NSIAD-00-14). 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

Merritt, K. M. (2017). Predicting the Success of Running Back Prospects in the National Football League [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

Poniewozik, J. (2016, October 14). Streaming at the Top of Her Lungs. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davis, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Davis, 2005; Gao & Jiang, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gao & Jiang, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Dahl et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Social Work
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Soc. Work
ISSN (print)	1369-1457
ISSN (online)	1468-2664
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science