How to format your references using the Chemistry Education Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemistry Education Research and Practice (CERP). 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

Rolison D. R., (2003), Catalytic nanoarchitectures--the importance of nothing and the unimportance of periodicity. Science, 299(5613), 1698–1701.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collini E. and Scholes G. D., (2009), Coherent intrachain energy migration in a conjugated polymer at room temperature. Science, 323(5912), 369–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng Y., Ye Q., and Shen W., (2014), Design principles for single standing nanowire solar cells: going beyond the planar efficiency limits. Sci. Rep., 4, 4915.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kienast M., Steinke S., Stattegger K., and Calvert S. E., (2001), Synchronous tropical South China Sea SST change and Greenland warming during deglaciation. Science, 291(5511), 2132–2134.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coe J. T., (2000), Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huang X. and Zhou J. eds., (2014), Information Security Practice and Experience: 10th International Conference, ISPEC 2014, Fuzhou, China, May 5-8, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hippe A., Homey B., and Mueller-Homey A., (2010), Chemokines, in Angiogenesis Inhibition, Liersch R., Berdel W. E., and Kessler T. (eds.) Recent Results in Cancer Research. Springer, pp. 35–50.

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 Chemistry Education Research and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew E., (2015), New Candidate Brings us One Step Closer to an HIV Vaccine. 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, (2000), At-Risk Youth: School-Community Collaborations Focus on Improving Student Outcomes, 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

Watkins D., (2008), The common factors between coaching cultures and transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and high-performance organizational cultures.

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

Hubbard B., (2017), Two Blasts Kill Dozens Near Shrines in Damascus. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rolison, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Rolison, 2003; Collini and Scholes, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Collini and Scholes, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kienast et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemistry Education Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Chem. Educ. Res. Pr.
ISSN (print)	1756-1108
ISSN (online)	1109-4028
Scope	Chemistry (miscellaneous) Education