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

Perkel, Jeffrey M. 2015. “Annotating the Scholarly Web.” Nature 528 (7580): 153–154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galán, Jorge E., and Hans Wolf-Watz. 2006. “Protein Delivery into Eukaryotic Cells by Type III Secretion Machines.” Nature 444 (7119): 567–573.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corezzi, Silvia, Daniele Fioretto, and Pierangelo Rolla. 2002. “Bond-Controlled Configurational Entropy Reduction in Chemical Vitrification.” Nature 420 (6916): 653–656.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Voyles, Jamie, Douglas C. Woodhams, Veronica Saenz, Allison Q. Byrne, Rachel Perez, Gabriela Rios-Sotelo, Mason J. Ryan, et al. 2018. “Shifts in Disease Dynamics in a Tropical Amphibian Assemblage Are Not Due to Pathogen Attenuation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 359 (6383): 1517–1519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertau, Martin, Armin Müller, Peter Fröhlich, and Michael Katzberg. 2013. Industrielle Anorganische Chemie. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Vidojkovic, Vojkan. 2008. Adaptive Multi-Standard RF Front-Ends. Edited by Johan van der Tang, Arjan Leeuwenburgh, and Arthur van Roermund. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson, Jeffrey, Celia Schiffer, Sook-Kyung Lee, and Ronald Swanstrom. 2009. “Viral Protease Inhibitors.” In Antiviral Strategies, edited by Hans-Georg Kräusslich and Ralf Bartenschlager, 85–110. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Overthinking Could Be Driving Creativity In People With Neurotic Disorders.” 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. 1989. Customs Automation: Internal Control Weaknesses in Customs’ Revenue Collection Process. IMTEC-89-50. 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

Courtney, Susan Jean. 2015. “A Sea of Voices: An Alchemical Journey Through Dissociation.” Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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, Mary J. O. 2013. “Beyond the Whimsy, Sushi With Ambition.” New York Times, April 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perkel 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Perkel 2015; Galán and Wolf-Watz 2006).

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

Two authors: (Galán and Wolf-Watz 2006)
Three authors: (Corezzi, Fioretto, and Rolla 2002)
4 or more authors: (Voyles et al. 2018)

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