How to format your references using the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. 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

Taubes, G. (2000). ASTRONOMY: Researchers Get Spectrum Bands. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5474), 2107–2109.

A journal article with 2 authors

Akbalik, G., & Schuman, E. M. (2014). Molecular biology. mRNA, live and unmasked. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6169), 375–376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Exadaktylos, F., Espín, A. M., & Brañas-Garza, P. (2013). Experimental subjects are not different. Scientific reports, 3, 1213.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kang, D., Dai, J., Sun, H., Hou, Y., & Yuan, J. (2013). Quantum simulation of thermally-driven phase transition and oxygen K-edge x-ray absorption of high-pressure ice. Scientific reports, 3, 3272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaufman, J. J., & Woodhead, R. (2006). Stimulating Innovation in Products and Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tempesti, G., Tyrrell, A. M., & Miller, J. F. (Eds.). (2010). Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware: 9th International Conference, ICES 2010, York, UK, September 6-8, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6274). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pol, L. G., & Thomas, R. K. (2013). Fertility. In R. K. Thomas (Ed.), The Demography of Health and Healthcare: Third Edition (pp. 91–112). 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 International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017, February 20). 2 Tragedies Intersected To Give This Man A Face Transplant — And The Story That Unfolded Is Powerful. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/2-tragedies-intersected-to-give-this-man-a-face-transplant-and-the-story-that-unfolded-is-powerful/. 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. (1981). Review of Yolo County, California, Economic Opportunity Commission Concerning Matters Affecting Local Poverty Programs (No. HRD-81-110). 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

Martinez, J. C. (2015). Theoretically tested remediation in response to insect resistance to Bt corn and Bt cotton: A new paradigm (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Grynbaum, M. M., & Koblin, J. (2017, March 12). Liberals Tune In to TV Again, in Search of Communal Solace. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taubes 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Akbalik and Schuman 2014; Taubes 2000).

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

Two authors: (Akbalik and Schuman 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance
Abbreviation	Int. J. Educ. Vocat. Guid.
ISSN (print)	0251-2513
ISSN (online)	1573-1782
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Education