How to format your references using the Journal of Children and Poverty citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Children and Poverty. 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

Myneni, Satish C. B. 2002. “Formation of Stable Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Weathering Plant Material.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5557): 1039–1041.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hannonen, Minttumaaria, and Liselotte Sundström. 2003. “Sociobiology: Worker Nepotism among Polygynous Ants.” Nature 421 (6926): 910.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Liang, Cheng Lu, and Kiet Tieu. 2014. “Atomistic Simulation of Tensile Deformation Behavior of ∑5 Tilt Grain Boundaries in Copper Bicrystal.” Scientific Reports 4 (August 2014): 5919.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Horie, Masayuki, Tomoyuki Honda, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Yuki Kobayashi, Takuji Daito, Tatsuo Oshida, Kazuyoshi Ikuta, et al. 2010. “Endogenous Non-Retroviral RNA Virus Elements in Mammalian Genomes.” Nature 463 (7277): 84–87.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong, Howard A., and Martin D. Brasier. 2004. Microfossils. Malden, MA USA: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Lukowicz, Paul, Lothar Thiele, and Gerhard Tröster, eds. 2007. Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2007: 20th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, March 12-15, 2007. Proceedings. Vol. 4415. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beheshti, Seyed-Mehdi-Reza, Boualem Benatallah, Sherif Sakr, Daniela Grigori, Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad, Moshe Chai Barukh, Ahmed Gater, and Seung Hwan Ryu. 2016. “Business Process Data Analysis.” In Process Analytics: Concepts and Techniques for Querying and Analyzing Process Data, edited by Boualem Benatallah, Sherif Sakr, Daniela Grigori, Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad, Moshe Chai Barukh, Ahmed Gater, and Seung Hwan Ryu, 107–134. 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 Journal of Children and Poverty.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2015. “Why Are Some People Selfish?” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 25. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/manipulative-peoples-brain-activity-differs-those-who-are-fairer/.

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. 1986. Data Security Software. 133201. 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

Desam, Jayasimha Reddy. 2017. “Effective Nodal Placement in Overlay Networks Using Complexity Theory.” 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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Leg Injury May End Season for Cespedes.” New York Times, August 26, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Myneni 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Myneni 2002; Hannonen and Sundström 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hannonen and Sundström 2003)
Three authors: (Zhang, Lu, and Tieu 2014)
4 or more authors: (Horie et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Children and Poverty
Abbreviation	J. Child. Poverty
ISSN (print)	1079-6126
ISSN (online)	1469-9389
Scope