How to format your references using the Human Resource Development International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Resource Development International. 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	Download the output style file
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

McSwain, M. Virginia. 2014. “Astrophysics: Black Hole Found Orbiting a Fast Rotator.” Nature 505 (7483): 296–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoffman, Yonit, and Yitzhak Pilpel. 2015. “Gene Expression. MicroRNAs Silence the Noisy Genome.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6230): 41–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rood, Robert T., T. M. Bania, and Dana S. Balser. 2002. “Cosmology. The Saga of 3He.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5556): 804–805.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Johnston, A. M., J. A. Raven, J. Beardall, and R. C. Leegood. 2001. “Carbon Fixation. Photosynthesis in a Marine Diatom.” Nature 412 (6842): 40–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

First, Michael B., and Allan Tasman. 2006. Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bock, Hans Georg, Xuan Phu Hoang, Rolf Rannacher, and Johannes P. Schlöder, eds. 2014. Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes - HPSC 2012: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, March 5-9, 2012, Hanoi, Vietnam. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Baldwin, Clive. 2007. “Who Needs Fact When You’ve Got Narrative? The Case of P,C&S vs. United Kingdom.” In Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning: Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice, edited by Wouter Werner and Deborah Cao, 85–108. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Human Resource Development International.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Humans, Not Larger Predators, To Blame For Cheetah Decline.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 3. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-not-larger-predators-blame-cheetah-decline/.

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. 1994. Technology Transfer: Improving the Use of Cooperative R&D Agreements at DOE’s Contractor-Operated Laboratories. RCED-94-91. 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

Madigan, James Patrick. 2008. “Regulation of Localization and Function of the Rho Family Small GTPase, Rnd3.” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Kelly, Michael. 1992. “THE TRANSITION: The New Team; Clinton Forming Tight Ethics Guides for Transition and Staff Aides.” New York Times, November 12, 1992.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McSwain 2014).
This sentence cites two references (McSwain 2014; Hoffman and Pilpel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hoffman and Pilpel 2015)
Three authors: (Rood, Bania, and Balser 2002)
4 or more authors: (Johnston et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Resource Development International
Abbreviation	Hum. Resour. Dev. Int.
ISSN (print)	1367-8868
ISSN (online)	1469-8374
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management