How to format your references using the Global Social Welfare citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Social Welfare. 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

Rutter, J. (2002). Essay: Amersham Biosciences and Science Prize. PAS domains and metabolic status signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5598), 1567–1568.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nair, G., & Raj, A. (2011). Molecular biology. Time-lapse transcription. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6028), 431–432.

A journal article with 3 authors

Logvenov, G., Gozar, A., & Bozovic, I. (2009). High-temperature superconductivity in a single copper-oxygen plane. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5953), 699–702.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yogodzinski, G. M., Lees, J. M., Churikova, T. G., Dorendorf, F., Wöerner, G., & Volynets, O. N. (2001). Geochemical evidence for the melting of subducting oceanic lithosphere at plate edges. Nature, 409(6819), 500–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abu-Jamous, B., Fa, R., & Nandi, A. K. (2015). Integrative Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Picher, M., & Boucher, R. C. (Eds.). (2011). Purinergic Regulation of Respiratory Diseases (Vol. 55). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Wodlei, F., & Hristea, M. R. (2013). Effect of Limited Stirring on the Belousov Zhabotinsky Reaction. In T. Gilbert, M. Kirkilionis, & G. Nicolis (Eds.), Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 (pp. 29–34). 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 Global Social Welfare.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, October 3). India Ratifies Paris Climate Agreement, Bringing World Closer To A Binding Deal. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/india-ratifies-paris-climate-agreement-bringing-world-closer-to-a-binding-deal/. 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. (1990). FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems (No. T-IMTEC-90-6). 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

Youngbull, N. R. (2017). The (Un)Success of American Indian Gates Millennium Scholars Within Institutions of Higher Education (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, July 12). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: At Least 20 Killed In Mall Fire. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rutter 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Nair and Raj 2011; Rutter 2002).

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

Two authors: (Nair and Raj 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yogodzinski et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Social Welfare
Abbreviation	Glob. Soc. Welf.
ISSN (online)	2196-8799
Scope