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

Goldston, D. (2008). America’s new leadership. Nature, 456(7218), 16.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sáez, A. G., & Lozano, E. (2005). Body doubles. Nature, 433(7022), 111.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen, Y., Knoll, A. H., & Walter, M. R. (2003). Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature, 423(6940), 632–635.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tanaka, Y., Fukushima, H., Okanoya, K., & Myowa-Yamakoshi, M. (2014). Mothers’ multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants. Scientific reports, 4, 6623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanby, M. (2013). No God, No Science? Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Blass, J. P. (Ed.). (2011). Neurochemical Mechanisms in Disease (1st ed., Vol. 1). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liddy, E. D. (2014). iSchools & the iSchool at Syracuse University. In C. Chen & R. Larsen (Eds.), Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research (pp. 31–37). 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 International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, March 28). We Finally Know What Cats’ Facial Expressions Mean. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/finally-know-cats-facial-expressions-mean/. 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. (2000). Airport Financing: Use of Funds for Capital Improvements at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (No. RCED-00-275R). 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

Mueller, K. (2017). Biases in the Selection Process Against Applicants with Tattoos (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Wilson, M., & Moynihan, C. (2017, October 2). Witnesses Recall Deafening Blast and Shrapnel in Chelsea Bombing Trial. New York Times, p. A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston 2008; Sáez and Lozano 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sáez and Lozano 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al. 2014)

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