How to format your references using the Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy. 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

Peng, C. (2011). Focus on quality, not just quantity. Nature, 475(7356), 267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strauss, J. F., 3rd, & Kafrissen, M. (2004). Waiting for the second coming. Nature, 432(7013), 43–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mili, S., Moissoglu, K., & Macara, I. G. (2008). Genome-wide screen reveals APC-associated RNAs enriched in cell protrusions. Nature, 453(7191), 115–119.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ngo, T. T. M., Moufarrej, M. N., Rasmussen, M.-L. H., Camunas-Soler, J., Pan, W., Okamoto, J., Neff, N. F., Liu, K., Wong, R. J., Downes, K., Tibshirani, R., Shaw, G. M., Skotte, L., Stevenson, D. K., Biggio, J. R., Elovitz, M. A., Melbye, M., & Quake, S. R. (2018). Noninvasive blood tests for fetal development predict gestational age and preterm delivery. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6393), 1133–1136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon, T., & Grossman, S. (2007). Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Robinson, P. J. (2007). Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care: A Guide to Integrating Services (J. T. Reiter, Ed.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Neuman, T. (2006). Positional and Restraint Asphyxia. In D. L. Ross & T. C. Chan (Eds.), Sudden Deaths in Custody (pp. 39–57). Humana Press.

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 Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, July 28). How The Vikings Used Sunstones To Find New Unknown Lands. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1996). Measuring Performance: The Advanced Technology Program and Private-Sector Funding (RCED-96-47). 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

Lee, Y. (2017). Lexical Stress Features Affecting the Recognition of English Loanwords in Korean by Native English Hearers [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2017, August 31). Car Insurers Facing Rush Of Claims After Storm. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peng, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Peng, 2011; Strauss & Kafrissen, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Strauss & Kafrissen, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ngo et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy
Abbreviation	Hong Kong J. Occup. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1569-1861
Scope	Occupational Therapy