How to format your references using the Human Resource Development International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Resource Development International. 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	Download the output style file
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

Walters, H. R. J. 2010. “Physics. Antimatter Atomic Physics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6005): 762–763.

A journal article with 2 authors

Waitukaitis, Scott R., and Heinrich M. Jaeger. 2012. “Impact-Activated Solidification of Dense Suspensions via Dynamic Jamming Fronts.” Nature 487 (7406): 205–209.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whittington, Alan G., Anne M. Hofmeister, and Peter I. Nabelek. 2009. “Temperature-Dependent Thermal Diffusivity of the Earth’s Crust and Implications for Magmatism.” Nature 458 (7236): 319–321.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bijl, Peter K., Stefan Schouten, Appy Sluijs, Gert-Jan Reichart, James C. Zachos, and Henk Brinkhuis. 2009. “Early Palaeogene Temperature Evolution of the Southwest Pacific Ocean.” Nature 461 (7265): 776–779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Braudeau, Erik, Amjad T. Assi, and Rabi H. Mohtar. 2016. Hydrostructural Pedology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sansone, Carlo, Josef Kittler, and Fabio Roli, eds. 2011. Multiple Classifier Systems: 10th International Workshop, MCS 2011, Naples, Italy, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings. Vol. 6713. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Partap, Sonia, and Paul Graham Fisher. 2010. “Embryonal Tumors.” In Pediatric CNS Tumors, edited by Nalin Gupta, Anuradha Banerjee, and Daphne Haas-Kogan, 89–114. Pediatric Oncology. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Human Resource Development International.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Centuries-Old Skeletons Reveal How Dissection Tools Improved.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/centuries-old-skeletons-reveal-how-dissection-tools-improved/.

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. 1986. Space Shuttle: Issues Associated With the Vandenberg Launch Site. NSIAD-87-32BR. Washington, DC: 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

Marlatt, Eva Strohm. 2013. “Effects of Accelerated Instruction on Achievement Gains of Underprepared Catholic High School Freshmen.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Duerden, John. 2017. “Trendy Shanghai District Has a Team With Glitter of Its Own.” New York Times, March 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walters 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Walters 2010; Waitukaitis and Jaeger 2012).

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

Two authors: (Waitukaitis and Jaeger 2012)
Three authors: (Whittington, Hofmeister, and Nabelek 2009)
4 or more authors: (Bijl et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Resource Development International
Abbreviation	Hum. Resour. Dev. Int.
ISSN (print)	1367-8868
ISSN (online)	1469-8374
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management