How to format your references using the Vocations and Learning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vocations and Learning. 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

Butler, D. (2003). Ministers back gene-crop advisers. Nature, 421(6925), 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roman, J., & Palumbi, S. R. (2003). Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5632), 508–510.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thitamadee, S., Tuchihara, K., & Hashimoto, T. (2002). Microtubule basis for left-handed helical growth in Arabidopsis. Nature, 417(6885), 193–196.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Stedman, H. H., Kozyak, B. W., Nelson, A., Thesier, D. M., Su, L. T., Low, D. W., et al. (2004). Myosin gene mutation correlates with anatomical changes in the human lineage. Nature, 428(6981), 415–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willan, A. R., & Briggs, A. H. (2006). Statistical Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Perales, F. J., & Fisher, R. B. (Eds.). (2010). Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 6th International Conference, AMDO 2010, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 7-9, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6169). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rizzi, A., Montanari, R., Bertolini, M., Bottani, E., & Volpi, A. (2011). Impiego della tecnologia RFID per la tracciabilità dei prodotti alimentari. In R. Montanari, M. Bertolini, E. Bottani, & A. Volpi (Eds.), Logistica e tecnologia RFID: Creare valore nella filiera alimentare e nel largo consumo (pp. 111–149). Milano: 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 Vocations and Learning.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 16). Cosmos For Creationists. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmos-creationists/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2007). Unified Motor Carrier Fee System: Progress Made but Challenges to Implementing New System Remain (No. GAO-07-771R). Washington, DC: 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

Kennedy, K. T. (2016). A Heuristic Study of Religious Spirituality and Meaningful Work (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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. (2007, March 25). Old-Time Staples and Sloppy Joes. New York Times, p. NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2003; Roman and Palumbi 2003).

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

Two authors: (Roman and Palumbi 2003)
Three or more authors: (Stedman et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Vocations and Learning
Abbreviation	Vocat. Learn.
ISSN (print)	1874-785X
ISSN (online)	1874-7868
Scope	Education