How to format your references using the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Human Rights and 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

Macilwain, C. (2000). Charm, not tact, aided pioneer in fight for physics. Nature, 403(6770), 586–587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doma, M. K., & Parker, R. (2006). Endonucleolytic cleavage of eukaryotic mRNAs with stalls in translation elongation. Nature, 440(7083), 561–564.

A journal article with 3 authors

Losos, J. B., Schoener, T. W., & Spiller, D. A. (2004). Predator-induced behaviour shifts and natural selection in field-experimental lizard populations. Nature, 432(7016), 505–508.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Keegan, B. R., Feldman, J. L., Begemann, G., Ingham, P. W., & Yelon, D. (2005). Retinoic acid signaling restricts the cardiac progenitor pool. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5707), 247–249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gleeson, K. (2008). The Personal Efficiency Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hsiao, G. C. (2008). Boundary Integral Equations. (W. L. Wendland, Ed.) (Vol. 164). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Javed, O., & Shah, M. (2008). Tracking in Multiple Cameras with Disjoint Views. In M. Shah (Ed.), Automated Multi-Camera Surveillance: Algorithms and Practice (pp. 1–26). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Human Rights and Social Work.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, October 10). What If Physical Diseases Were Treated Like Mental Illnesses? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-if-physical-diseases-were-treated-like-mental-illnesses/. 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. (1989). ADP Budget: SSA’s Fiscal Year 1990 Information Technology Systems Budget Request (No. IMTEC-89-60). 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

Rahschulte, R. L. (2014). An Examination of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Detect, Practice, and Repair versus Traditional Cover, Copy, and Compare Procedures: A Component Analysis (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Turkewitz, J. (2016, August 11). Mayor’s Arrest and Link to the Death of a Boy Have Divided a California City. New York Times, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Doma and Parker 2006; Macilwain 2000).

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

Two authors: (Doma and Parker 2006)
Three or more authors: (Keegan et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Human Rights and Social Work
Abbreviation	J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work
ISSN (online)	2365-1792
Scope