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

Benovic JL (2015) Structural biology: Arresting developments in receptor signalling. Nature 523:538–539

A journal article with 2 authors

Beckmann R, Herrmann JM (2015) Structural biology. Mitoribosome oddities. Science 348:288–289

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlson RJ, Valero FPJ, Seinfeld JH (2005) Atmospheric science. In search of balance. Science 308:806–807

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang J, Qi J, Zhao H, et al (2013) Metagenomic sequencing reveals microbiota and its functional potential associated with periodontal disease. Sci Rep 3:1843

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krichen S, Chaouachi J (2014) Graph-Related Optimization and Decision Support Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Faridah-Hanum I, Latiff A, Hakeem KR, Ozturk M (eds) (2014) Mangrove Ecosystems of Asia: Status, Challenges and Management Strategies. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Groves W, Collins J, Ketter W, Gini M (2011) Analyzing Market Interactions in a Multi-agent Supply Chain Environment. In: Sharman R, Rao HR, Raghu TS (eds) Exploring the Grand Challenges for Next Generation E-Business: 8th Workshop on E-Business, WEB 2009, Phoenix, AZ, USA, December 15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 44–58

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

Taub B (2016) Giving Alzheimer’s To Cancer Cells Could Render Them Harmless. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/giving-alzheimers-cancer-cells-could-render-them-harmless/. 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 (1978) Federal Computer Systems Protection Act of 1978 (S. 1766). 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

Zivkovic O (2010) Ternary nanomaterials: Synthesis by alkalide reduction and characterization. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Greenhouse L (2008) Court Weighs Right to Guns, And Its Limits. 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 (Benovic 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Beckmann and Herrmann 2015; Benovic 2015).

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

Two authors: (Beckmann and Herrmann 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

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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