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

Merilä, J. (2009). Evolution. Genetic constraints on adaptation? Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5945), 1212–1213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov, R., & Littman, D. (2008). HIV immunology needs a new direction. Nature, 455(7213), 591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mersch, D. P., Crespi, A., & Keller, L. (2013). Tracking individuals shows spatial fidelity is a key regulator of ant social organization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1090–1093.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Larkum, M. E., Nevian, T., Sandler, M., Polsky, A., & Schiller, J. (2009). Synaptic integration in tuft dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons: a new unifying principle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 756–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaisford, S., & Saunders, M. (2012). Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wicks, A. (Ed.). (2015). Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, and Energy Harvesting, Volume 9: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bivand, R. S., Pebesma, E., & Gómez-Rubio, V. (2013). Spatial Data Import and Export. In E. Pebesma & V. Gómez-Rubio (Eds.), Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (pp. 83–125). New York, NY: 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 International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 15). New Species of Microbes That ‘Breathe’ Sulfate Discovered Under Ocean Crust. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-microbes-breathe-sulfate-discovered-under-ocean-crust/. 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. (1992). Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 10 (No. 147910). 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

Lee, Y. (2017). Lexical Stress Features Affecting the Recognition of English Loanwords in Korean by Native English Hearers (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Chapman, M. M. (2014, September 4). 17-Year Sentence in Michigan Shooting. New York Times, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Merilä 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Medzhitov and Littman 2008; Merilä 2009).

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

Two authors: (Medzhitov and Littman 2008)
Three or more authors: (Larkum et al. 2009)

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