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

Hardin, Lowell S. 2008. “Meetings That Changed the World: Bellagio 1969: The Green Revolution.” Nature 455 (7212): 470–471.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vernot, Benjamin, and Joshua M. Akey. 2014. “Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6174): 1017–1021.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhandawat, Vikas, Johannes Reisert, and King-Wai Yau. 2005. “Elementary Response of Olfactory Receptor Neurons to Odorants.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5730): 1931–1934.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mayama, Satoshi, Motohide Tamura, Tomoyuki Hanawa, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Miki Ishii, Tae-Soo Pyo, Hiroshi Suto, et al. 2010. “Direct Imaging of Bridged Twin Protoplanetary Disks in a Young Multiple Star.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5963): 306–308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Palmquist, Stephen R. 2015. Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cherry, Mark J., ed. 2009. The Normativity of the Natural: Human Goods, Human Virtues, and Human Flourishing. Vol. 16. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Syed, Khalida Tanvir. 2012. “Academic Noisen.” In Through White Noise: Autonarrative Exploration of Racism, Discrimination, and the Doorways to Academic Citizenship in Canada, edited by Khalida Tanvir Syed, 75–88. Rotterdam: 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 Human Resource Development International.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “South Africa To Start Killing Buffalo And Hippos To Save Them From Starvation.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/south-africa-to-start-killing-buffalo-and-hippos-to-save-them-from-starvation/.

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. 1998. Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Superseded by AIMD-99-32). AIMD-98-110. 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

Cebada-Ricalde, Maria Concepcion. 2014. “Synthesis and Characterization of PANI-Coated VGCNFs and Evaluation of Its Use for Corrosion Inhibition.” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Ding, George. 2015. “How to Cheat on Taxes in China.” New York Times, September 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hardin 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hardin 2008; Vernot and Akey 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vernot and Akey 2014)
Three authors: (Bhandawat, Reisert, and Yau 2005)
4 or more authors: (Mayama et al. 2010)

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