How to format your references using the Pastoral Care in Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pastoral Care in Education. 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

Woo, H. J. (2013). Stationary distribution of self-organized states and biological information generation. Scientific Reports, 3, 3329.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hegerl, G. C., & Russon, T. (2011). Climate change. Using the past to predict the future? Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6061), 1360–1361.

A journal article with 3 authors

Strauss, E., Oszkinis, G., & Staniszewski, R. (2014). SEPP1 gene variants and abdominal aortic aneurysm: gene association in relation to metabolic risk factors and peripheral arterial disease coexistence. Scientific Reports, 4, 7061.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Cantlon, J. F., Cordes, S., Libertus, M. E., & Brannon, E. M. (2009). Comment on “Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 38; author reply 38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang, J. (2007). Six-Membered Transition States in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tveito, A. (2010). Elements of Scientific Computing (H. P. Langtangen, B. F. Nielsen, & X. Cai, Eds.; Vol. 7). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Moirta, M. T., Nakamura, M., & Tasaka, M. (2012). Gravity Sensing, Interpretation, and Response. In G. Witzany & F. Baluška (Eds.), Biocommunication of Plants (pp. 51–66). 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 Pastoral Care in Education.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, October 7). People Are Freaking Out Over This Dead “Mermaid” On A UK Beach. 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). Highway Trust Fund: Financial Status and Outlook (T-RCED-96-169). 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

Platt, J. B. (2008). Feast in the time of terror: Stalinist temporal paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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, M. (1992, June 4). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: In His Own Words; On TV, a Very Public Education for Ross Perot. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Woo, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hegerl & Russon, 2011; Woo, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hegerl & Russon, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Cantlon et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pastoral Care in Education
Abbreviation	Pastor. Care Educ.
ISSN (print)	0264-3944
ISSN (online)	1468-0122
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education