How to format your references using the Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. 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

Hawks J (2001) The Y chromosome and the replacement hypothesis. Science 293:567

A journal article with 2 authors

Côté J-F, Vuori K (2009) Cell biology. Two lipids that give direction. Science 324:346–347

A journal article with 3 authors

Carslaw KS, Harrison RG, Kirkby J (2002) Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate. Science 298:1732–1737

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chang H-K, King S-K, Liang J-S, et al (2006) Occultation of X-rays from Scorpius X-1 by small trans-neptunian objects. Nature 442:660–663

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stidwill D, Fletcher R (2010) Normal Binocular Vision. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Zou Y (2016) Physical-Layer Security for Cooperative Relay Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Varzi A (2016) On Drawing Lines Across the Board. In: Zaibert L (ed) The Theory and Practice of Ontology. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 45–78

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 Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Genetic Link Between Autism And Better Cognitive Ability Found. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/genetic-link-between-autism-and-better-cognitive-ability-found/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1992) Transportation Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pei X (2008) Acid modification of psyllium. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Saslow L (2009) Sorting Out their Goals, and Options. New York Times WE7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hawks 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hawks 2001; Côté and Vuori 2009).

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

Two authors: (Côté and Vuori 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy
Abbreviation	Video J. Educ. Pedagog.
ISSN (online)	2364-4583
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