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

Wilczek F (2009) Journal club. A theoretical physicist examines exotic particles lurking in new materials. Nature 458:129

A journal article with 2 authors

Gunn PP, Joiner SD (2009) Certificates should be strengthened. Science 323:1289–90; author reply 1298-90

A journal article with 3 authors

Turney CSM, Roberts RG, Jacobs Z (2006) Archaeology: progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating. Nature 443:E3; discussion E4

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Alessandrini M, Micarelli A, Chiaravalloti A, et al (2014) Cortico-subcortical metabolic correlates of olfactory processing in healthy resting subjects. Sci Rep 4:5146

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saghyan AS, Langer P (2016) Asymmetric Synthesis of Non&;#x02010;Proteinogenic Amino Acids. Wiley&;#x02010;VCH Verlag GmbH &;#38; Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Terlaky T, Curtis FE (eds) (2012) Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: Selected Contributions from the MOPTA 2010 Conference. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Pollice S, Morlino G, Capuano M, Scarabino T (2012) Future Developments. In: Scarabino T (ed) Imaging Gliomas After Treatment: A Case-based Atlas. Springer, Milano, pp 23–24

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

Fang J (2015) Vomiting Machine Shows How Viruses Spread Through The Air. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vomiting-machine-shows-how-viruses-spread-through-air/. 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 (1997) Proprietary Schools: Millions Spent to Train Students for Oversupplied Occupations. 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

Smith AP (2013) The Leadership Potential of School Librarians. 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

Poniewozik J (2017) Fox News Is Fixing For a Fight At Night. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gunn and Joiner 2009; Wilczek 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gunn and Joiner 2009)
Three or more authors: (Alessandrini et al. 2014)

About the journal

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