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

Gingerich, O. (2010). Brian Marsden (1937-2010). Nature, 468(7327), 1042.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schneggenburger, R., & Neher, E. (2000). Intracellular calcium dependence of transmitter release rates at a fast central synapse. Nature, 406(6798), 889–893.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mallatt, J., Chen, J., & Holland, N. D. (2003). Comment on “A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5624), 1372; author reply 1372.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xiao, Y., Patolsky, F., Katz, E., Hainfeld, J. F., & Willner, I. (2003). “Plugging into Enzymes”: nanowiring of redox enzymes by a gold nanoparticle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5614), 1877–1881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodda, H. J. E., & Little, M. A. (2015). Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Braimoh, A. K., & Vlek, P. L. G. (Eds.). (2008). Land Use and Soil Resources. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Richards, H., & Swanger, J. (2009). Culture Change: A Practical Method with a Theoretical Basis. In J. de Rivera (Ed.), Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace (pp. 57–70). 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 Pastoral Care in Education.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, June 28). Newly Formulated Liquid Aspirin Claimed To Be Able To Pass Through Blood-Brain Barrier. 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. (1973). Review of Selected Projects Under the Bilingual Education Program (B-164031(1)). 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

Othmanawny, G. (2017). Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Feeney, K. (2008, August 24). A Produce Auction With an Eye to Survival. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gingerich, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gingerich, 2010; Schneggenburger & Neher, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Schneggenburger & Neher, 2000)
Three authors: (Mallatt et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2003)

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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