How to format your references using the Journal of Vocational Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Vocational Behavior. 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

Zachary, D. S. (2014). On the sustainability of an activity. Scientific Reports, 4, 5215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pokrovski, G. S., & Dubrovinsky, L. S. (2011). The S3- ion is stable in geological fluids at elevated temperatures and pressures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1052–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young, B. A., Gruber, T. M., & Gross, C. A. (2004). Minimal machinery of RNA polymerase holoenzyme sufficient for promoter melting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5662), 1382–1384.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Leibfried, D., Barrett, M. D., Schaetz, T., Britton, J., Chiaverini, J., Itano, W. M., Jost, J. D., Langer, C., & Wineland, D. J. (2004). Toward Heisenberg-limited spectroscopy with multiparticle entangled states. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1476–1478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer, A. (2006). Electric Power Planning for Regulated and Deregulated Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gonzalez, R. S. (2016). Non-Neoplastic Liver Pathology: A Pathologist’s Survival Guide (K. Washington, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Foster, L., & Woodthorpe, K. (2016). Funeral Welfare to the Grave. In L. Foster & K. Woodthorpe (Eds.), Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times (pp. 73–90). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 29). Happy Galactic Tick Day! Milestone Celebrates Our Journey Around The Galaxy. 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. (1995). Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions (T-RCED-95-90). 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

Skutt, S. (2017). Midlife Metamorphosis: Archetypal Imaginal Psychology in Midlife Rite of Passage [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Walsh, M. W., & Werdigier, J. (2013, April 20). What’s in Your Pension Plan? New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zachary, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pokrovski & Dubrovinsky, 2011; Zachary, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pokrovski & Dubrovinsky, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Leibfried et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Vocational Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Vocat. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0001-8791
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology Education Life-span and Life-course Studies