How to format your references using the Social Work Education citation style

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

Perry, J. W. (2009). Applied physics. Two beams squeeze feature sizes in optical lithography. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5929), 892–893.

A journal article with 2 authors

David, L. A., & Alm, E. J. (2011). Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion. Nature, 469(7328), 93–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shin, S.-B., Golovkin, M., & Reddy, A. S. N. (2014). A pollen-specific calmodulin-binding protein, NPG1, interacts with putative pectate lyases. Scientific Reports, 4, 5263.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhou, J., Tian, G., Chen, Y., Shi, Y., Tian, C., Pan, K., & Fu, H. (2014). Growth rate controlled synthesis of hierarchical Bi2S3/In2S3 core/shell microspheres with enhanced photocatalytic activity. Scientific Reports, 4, 4027.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beiser, L. (2005). Unified Optical Scanning Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lopez-Tarruella, A. (Ed.). (2012). Google and the Law: Empirical Approaches to Legal Aspects of Knowledge-Economy Business Models (Vol. 22). T. M. C. Asser Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Wobst, H. M. (2006). Artifacts as Social Interference: The Politics of Spatial Scale. In B. L. Molyneaux (Ed.), Confronting scale in archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice (pp. 55–64). 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 Social Work Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 18). Keychain First Aid Kit Might Help Save The Bees. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2005). Aviation Security: Measures for Testing the Impact of Using Commercial Data for the Secure Flight Program (GAO-05-324). 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

Nguyen, D. (2009). Deus-ex-machina: A modern skeptic’s relentless scrutiny of the production of ethics in post-colonial literature and postcolonialism [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, October 1). ‘Megyn Kelly’ Is Awkward, Not Partisan. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perry, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (David & Alm, 2011; Perry, 2009).

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

Two authors: (David & Alm, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Work Education
Abbreviation	Soc. Work Educ.
ISSN (print)	0261-5479
ISSN (online)	1470-1227
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education