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

Wang, J. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Personal genomes: for one and for all. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 690.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferguson-Smith, A. C., & Surani, M. A. (2001). Imprinting and the epigenetic asymmetry between parental genomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1086–1089.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burlaga, L. F., Ness, N. F., & Stone, E. C. (2013). Magnetic field observations as Voyager 1 entered the heliosheath depletion region. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6142), 147–150.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gomberg, J., Rubinstein, J. L., Peng, Z., Creager, K. C., Vidale, J. E., & Bodin, P. (2008). Widespread triggering of nonvolcanic tremor in California. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewis, R. J., Sr. (2008). Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Galizia, C. G., Eisenhardt, D., & Giurfa, M. (Eds.). (2012). Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior: A Tribute to Randolf Menzel. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Royer, J. J., Mejia, P., Caumon, G., & Collon, P. (2015). 3D and 4D Geomodelling Applied to Mineral Resources Exploration—An Introduction. In P. Weihed (Ed.), 3D, 4D and Predictive Modelling of Major Mineral Belts in Europe (pp. 73–89). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, September 29). Inskip Beach Collapse: Just Don’t Call It A ‘Sinkhole.’ IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/inskip-beach-collapse-just-don-t-call-it-sinkhole/

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. (1981). Better Management Needed in Automating the Federal Judiciary (GGD-81-19). 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

Crider, M. C. (2012). The social and environmental effects of shrimp mariculture: Case studies of two coastal villages in Ecuador [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Robles, F., & Blinder, A. (2015, April 9). A Stark Image of a Shooting Carries Impact. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ferguson-Smith & Surani, 2001; Wang, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ferguson-Smith & Surani, 2001)
Three authors: (Burlaga et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Gomberg et al., 2008)

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