How to format your references using the African Journal of Career Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for African Journal of Career Development (AJCD). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schimel, D. S. (2010). Climate. Drylands in the Earth system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5964), 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cantrell, R. P., & Reeves, T. G. (2002). The rice genome. The cereal of the world’s poor takes center stage. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5565), 53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendell, J. T., ap Rhys, C. M. J., & Dietz, H. C. (2002). Separable roles for rent1/hUpf1 in altered splicing and decay of nonsense transcripts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5592), 419–422.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jékely, G., Colombelli, J., Hausen, H., Guy, K., Stelzer, E., Nédélec, F., & Arendt, D. (2008). Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton. Nature, 456(7220), 395–399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guinebretière, R. (2010). X-ray Diffraction by Polycrystalline Materials. ISTE.

An edited book

Sushil, Bhal, K. T., & Singh, S. P. (Eds.). (2016). Managing Flexibility: People, Process, Technology and Business. Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Scala, R. (2010). Ventilators for Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation. In A. M. Esquinas (Ed.), Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation: Theory, Equipment, and Clinical Applications (pp. 27–38). 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 African Journal of Career Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 23). Mysterious Bright Object Spotted On Titan. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-bright-object-spotted-titan/

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. (1998). [Comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s Implementation of Section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934] (B-278820). 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

Bonin, C. (2010). Spatial and temporal characteristics of electromagnetic activity in the brain prior to reaches to visual targets [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

Baker, P. (2017, July 18). Reluctantly, Trump Recertifies Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Agreement. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schimel, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cantrell & Reeves, 2002; Schimel, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cantrell & Reeves, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jékely et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	African Journal of Career Development
ISSN (online)	2617-7471
Scope