How to format your references using the Pastoral Care in Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pastoral Care in Education. 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

Patek, S. N. (2001). Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound. Nature, 411(6834), 153–154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aitken, R. J., & Marshall Graves, J. A. (2002). The future of sex. Nature, 415(6875), 963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lezec, H. J., Dionne, J. A., & Atwater, H. A. (2007). Negative refraction at visible frequencies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5823), 430–432.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Porath, D., Bezryadin, A., de Vries, S., & Dekker, C. (2000). Direct measurement of electrical transport through DNA molecules. Nature, 403(6770), 635–638.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quesnel, F. (2014). Scheduling of Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ismail, A. F. (2011). Carbon-based Membranes for Separation Processes (D. Rana, T. Matsuura, & H. C. Foley, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghazzai, H., Yaacoub, E., Kadri, A., & Alouini, M.-S. (2016). Multi-operator Collaboration for Green Cellular Networks. In M. Z. Shakir, M. A. Imran, K. A. Qaraqe, M.-S. Alouini, & A. V. Vasilakos (Eds.), Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks (pp. 97–122). 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 Pastoral Care in Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, July 25). Newly Discovered Gut Virus Is In At Least Half of All Humans. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/newly-discovered-gut-virus-least-half-all-humans/

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. (2017). NASA Commercial Crew Program: Schedule Pressure Increases as Contractors Delay Key Events (GAO-17-137). 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

Kim, C. S. (2017). Electronic Transport of Thin Crystals in Ruthenium Chloride [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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., Corkery, M., & Davis, J. H. (2015, October 21). White House Will Offer Plan to Help Puerto Rico. 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 (Patek, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Aitken & Marshall Graves, 2002; Patek, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Aitken & Marshall Graves, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Porath et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pastoral Care in Education
Abbreviation	Pastor. Care Educ.
ISSN (print)	0264-3944
ISSN (online)	1468-0122
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education