How to format your references using the Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy. 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

Dajani, R. (2012). How women scientists fare in the Arab world. Nature, 491(7422), 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flatt, T., & Promislow, D. E. L. (2007). Physiology. Still pondering an age-old question. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5854), 1255–1256.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hagan, C. L., Kim, S., & Kahne, D. (2010). Reconstitution of outer membrane protein assembly from purified components. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5980), 890–892.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dubois, M., Demé, B., Gulik-Krzywicki, T., Dedieu, J. C., Vautrin, C., Désert, S., Perez, E., & Zemb, T. (2001). Self-assembly of regular hollow icosahedra in salt-free catanionic solutions. Nature, 411(6838), 672–675.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Möller, G. (2012). Geotechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Gavrilova, M. L., & Tan, C. J. K. (Eds.). (2014). Transactions on Computational Science XXII (Vol. 8360). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, E. (2012). Biology Education in China 2000–2010. In M. Kim & C. H. Diong (Eds.), Biology Education for Social and Sustainable Development (pp. 51–59). SensePublishers.

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 Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 12). The VW Scandal Exposes The High Tech Control Of Engine Emissions. 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. (1995). Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (AA-95-35(3)). 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

Orozco, M. (2015). Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Billard, M. (2010, July 22). Jodi Arnold Expands Her Empire. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dajani, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dajani, 2012; Flatt & Promislow, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Flatt & Promislow, 2007)
Three authors: (Hagan et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Dubois et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy
Abbreviation	Hong Kong J. Occup. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1569-1861
Scope	Occupational Therapy