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

Resch, K. J. (2008). Physics. Amplifying a tiny optical effect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5864), 733–734.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gallouzi, I. E., & Steitz, J. A. (2001). Delineation of mRNA export pathways by the use of cell-permeable peptides. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5548), 1895–1901.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stollewerk, A., Schoppmeier, M., & Damen, W. G. M. (2003). Involvement of Notch and Delta genes in spider segmentation. Nature, 423(6942), 863–865.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

King-Casas, B., Tomlin, D., Anen, C., Camerer, C. F., Quartz, S. R., & Montague, P. R. (2005). Getting to know you: reputation and trust in a two-person economic exchange. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5718), 78–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hines, M. (2015). Marketing implant dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alcaraz, M. J., Gualillo, O., & Sánchez-Pernaute, O. (Eds.). (2013). Studies on Arthritis and Joint Disorders. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Frey, J., Bird, C., & Willoughby, C. (2013). Smart Meeting Spaces for Knowledge Transfer. In R. J. Howlett, B. Gabrys, K. Musial-Gabrys, & J. Roach (Eds.), Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2012 (pp. 31–38). 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 Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, November 11). The Majority Of Life On Earth Is Already Feeling The Effects Of Climate Change. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-majority-of-life-on-earth-is-already-feeling-the-effects-of-climate-change/

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. (1977). Collection Efforts Not Keeping Pace With Growing Number of Defaulted Student Loans (CD-77-1). 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

Reilly, C. A. (2014). Information and Communication Technology Use in the College Classroom: Adjunct Faculty Perspectives [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Saslow, L. (2009, January 11). Moving From Team Sport to Lifelong Fitness. New York Times, LI5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Resch, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gallouzi & Steitz, 2001; Resch, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gallouzi & Steitz, 2001)
Three or more authors: (King-Casas et al., 2005)

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