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

Cole, M. (2011). Poison in party pills is too much to swallow. Nature, 474(7351), 253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melnick, J. G., & Parkin, G. (2007). Cleaving mercury-alkyl bonds: a functional model for mercury detoxification by MerB. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5835), 225–227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hasnaoui, A., Van Swygenhoven, H., & Derlet, P. M. (2003). Dimples on nanocrystalline fracture surfaces as evidence for shear plane formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1550–1552.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Peyser, L. A., Vinson, A. E., Bartko, A. P., & Dickson, R. M. (2001). Photoactivated fluorescence from individual silver nanoclusters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5501), 103–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rombach, G. (2010). Spannbetonbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Plein, S. (2011). Cardiovascular MR Manual (J. Greenwood & J. P. Ridgway, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kang, J. X., & Weylandt, K. H. (2008). Modulation of Inflammatory Cytokines by Omega-3 Fatty Acids. In P. J. Quinn & X. Wang (Eds.), Lipids in Health and Disease (pp. 133–143). Springer Netherlands.

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

Fang, J. (2014, December 19). Why Some People Really Don’t Need to Ask for Directions. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-some-people-really-dont-need-ask-directions/

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. (1990). Aviation Safety: Management Improvement Needed in FAA’s Airworthiness Directive Program (RCED-90-94). 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

Turner, L. B. (2012). Diet, physical activity and breast cancer risk: An integrative science cross-populational approach [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, February 27). Friday File. New York Times, C27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cole, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cole, 2011; Melnick & Parkin, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Melnick & Parkin, 2007)
Three authors: (Hasnaoui et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Peyser 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

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