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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Bricks and mortar. Scandinavia’s material gains. Nature, 429(6994), 906.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng, C. L., & Novales Flamarique, I. (2004). Opsin expression: new mechanism for modulating colour vision. Nature, 428(6980), 279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Donner, S. D., Kandlikar, M., & Zerriffi, H. (2011). Environment and development. Preparing to manage climate change financing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6058), 908–909.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gago, S., Elena, S. F., Flores, R., & Sanjuán, R. (2009). Extremely high mutation rate of a hammerhead viroid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godula-Jopek, A., Jehle, W., & Wellnitz, J. (2012). Hydrogen Storage Technologies. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Mariconda, C. (2016). Discrete Calculus: Methods for Counting (A. Tonolo, Ed.; Vol. 103). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gliozzi, S., Castellazzo, A., & Fasano, G. (2016). Packing Problems in Space Solved by CPLEX: An Experimental Analysis. In G. Fasano & J. D. Pintér (Eds.), Space Engineering: Modeling and Optimization with Case Studies (pp. 129–150). 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

Hale, T. (2016, July 20). Experts Have Some Advice Following A Nasty E. Coli Outbreak From Salad. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/experts-have-some-advice-following-a-nasty-e-coli-outbreak-from-salad/

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. (1989). ADP Modernization: Health Care Financing Administration’s Software Redesign Contract (IMTEC-89-15). 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

Barger, B. (2014). A Quantitative Study of Educational Poverty, School Location, and Student Achievement Measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Williams, J. (2016, July 31). Classic Words, Fresh Looks. New York Times, BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cheng & Novales Flamarique, 2004; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cheng & Novales Flamarique, 2004)
Three authors: (Donner et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Gago et al., 2009)

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

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