How to format your references using the African Journal of Career Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for African Journal of Career Development (AJCD). 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Dalton, R. (2003). Auction of DNA archive cancelled. Nature, 422(6928), 102.

A journal article with 2 authors

De Angelis, H., & Skvarca, P. (2003). Glacier surge after ice shelf collapse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5612), 1560–1562.

A journal article with 3 authors

McDougall, I., Brown, F. H., & Fleagle, J. G. (2005). Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia. Nature, 433(7027), 733–736.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Oliver, D., Lien, C.-C., Soom, M., Baukrowitz, T., Jonas, P., & Fakler, B. (2004). Functional conversion between A-type and delayed rectifier K+ channels by membrane lipids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 265–270.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, W. C. (2016). Resistivity Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hall, J. C., & Hall, B. J. (Eds.). (2015). Cutaneous Drug Eruptions: Diagnosis, Histopathology and Therapy. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Han, W., Di, L., Zhao, P., Wei, Y., & Li, X. (2008). Design and Implementation of GeoBrain Online Analysis System (GeOnAS). In M. Bertolotto, C. Ray, & X. Li (Eds.), Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 8th International Symposium, W2GIS 2008, Shanghai, China, December 11-12, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 27–36). 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 African Journal of Career Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 6). Sharper GPS Needs Even More Accurate Atomic Clocks. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/sharper-gps-needs-even-more-accurate-atomic-clocks/

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. (1973). Applications Technology Satellite F and G Project (093809). 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

Chiang, I.-C. (2010). A historical technique from a modern perspective: The transcription scordatura in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Kelly, D. A. (2003, October 31). Weekender | Great Barrington, Mass. New York Times, F7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton, 2003; De Angelis & Skvarca, 2003).

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

Two authors: (De Angelis & Skvarca, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Oliver et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	African Journal of Career Development
ISSN (online)	2617-7471
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