How to format your references using the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. 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

Lellouch, E. (2006). Planetary science. Titan’s zoo of clouds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5758), 186–187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, B. G., & Dye, C. (2003). Antiretroviral drugs for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV/AIDS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1535–1537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butler, S. J., Vickery, J. A., & Norris, K. (2007). Farmland biodiversity and the footprint of agriculture. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5810), 381–384.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Grima, B., Chélot, E., Xia, R., & Rouyer, F. (2004). Morning and evening peaks of activity rely on different clock neurons of the Drosophila brain. Nature, 431(7010), 869–873.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mann, S. (2010). Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Vayenas, C. G. (Ed.). (2011). Interfacial Phenomena in Electrocatalysis (Vol. 51). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, J. J., Glenn, E. P., & Smith, S. E. (2014). Feasibility of Halophyte Domestication for High-Salinity Agriculture. In M. A. Khan, B. Böer, M. Öztürk, T. Z. A. Abdessalaam, M. Clüsener-Godt, & B. Gul (Eds.), Sabkha Ecosystems: Volume IV: Cash Crop Halophyte and Biodiversity Conservation (pp. 73–80). Dordrecht: 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 International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 24). New Eye Drops Can Dissolve Cataracts With No Need For Surgery. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/these-eye-drops-shrunk-cataracts-dogs/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1999). Surface Transportation: Moving into the 21st Century (No. RCED-99-176). 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

Bearden, B. A. (2008). Followership as perceived by leaders in a multidisciplinary healthcare organization (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Genzlinger, N., Hale, M., Lyons, M., & Brantley, B. (2017, August 8). Vacation Selections For Trump. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lellouch 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lellouch 2006; Williams and Dye 2003).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Dye 2003)
Three or more authors: (Grima et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance
Abbreviation	Int. J. Educ. Vocat. Guid.
ISSN (print)	0251-2513
ISSN (online)	1573-1782
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Education