How to format your references using the Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy. 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

Buston P (2003) Social hierarchies: size and growth modification in clownfish. Nature 424:145–146

A journal article with 2 authors

Schuster-Böckler B, Lehner B (2012) Chromatin organization is a major influence on regional mutation rates in human cancer cells. Nature 488:504–507

A journal article with 3 authors

Martill DM, Tischlinger H, Longrich NR (2015) EVOLUTION. A four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana. Science 349:416–419

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Teder P, Vandivier RW, Jiang D, et al (2002) Resolution of lung inflammation by CD44. Science 296:155–158

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Passarelli D (2012) Trading Options Greeks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kabashima K (ed) (2016) Immunology of the Skin: Basic and Clinical Sciences in Skin Immune Responses, 1st ed. 2016. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Kramer M (2009) The Double Pulsar: A Unique Lab for Relativistic Plasma Physics and Tests of General Relativity. In: Becker W (ed) Neutron Stars and Pulsars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–90

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 Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Solar Plane Is About To Embark On A Round-The-World Trip. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2004) Information Technology Management: Governmentwide Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Can Be Further Improved. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Poldervaart PG (2010) A qualitative study of nursing didactic programs: Novice nurses’ perception of competence, confidence, and retention. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Koblin J (2017) TV’s Answer to Dark Days. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buston 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buston 2003; Schuster-Böckler and Lehner 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schuster-Böckler and Lehner 2012)
Three or more authors: (Teder et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy
Abbreviation	Video J. Educ. Pedagog.
ISSN (online)	2364-4583
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