How to format your references using the Cultural Studies of Science Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE). 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

Lüthi, M. (2013). Geophysics. Gauging Greenland’s subglacial water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6147), 721–722.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veldhoen, M., & Withers, D. R. (2010). Immunology. Innate lymphoid cell relations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6004), 594–595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eremtchenko, M., Schaefer, J. A., & Tautz, F. S. (2003). Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design. Nature, 425(6958), 602–605.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Choi, I., Aalkjaer, C., Boulpaep, E. L., & Boron, W. F. (2000). An electroneutral sodium/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCn1 and associated sodium channel. Nature, 405(6786), 571–575.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jawlik, A. A. (2016). Statistics from A to Z: Confusing Concepts Clarified. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Neustein, A., & Markowitz, J. A. (Eds.). (2013). Mobile Speech and Advanced Natural Language Solutions. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

García-Fernández, N., Macher, H. C., Rubio, A., Jiménez-Arriscado, P., Bernal-Bellido, C., Bellido-Díaz, M. L., … Molinero, P. (2016). Detection of p53 Mutations in Circulating DNA of Transplanted Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients as a Biomarker of Tumor Recurrence. In P. B. Gahan, M. Fleischhacker, and B. Schmidt (Eds.), Circulating Nucleic Acids in Serum and Plasma – CNAPS IX (pp. 25–28). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Cultural Studies of Science Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 29). Scientists Make DNA Wires That Carry Electric Current. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-make-dna-wires-carry-electric-current/

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. (2005). NASA Travel: Passenger Aircraft Services Annually Cost Taxpayers Millions More Than Commercial Airlines (No. GAO-05-818). 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

Powers, D. L. (2010). Teachers’ perceptions of the effects of No Child Left Behind on classroom instruction: A cross case analysis applying Dewey’s theory of instructional methods (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, September 5). War Ends, but Divisions Remain. New York Times, p. C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lüthi 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lüthi 2013; Veldhoen and Withers 2010).

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

Two authors: (Veldhoen and Withers 2010)
Three authors: (Eremtchenko, Schaefer, and Tautz 2003)
6 or more authors: (Choi, Aalkjaer, Boulpaep, and Boron 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cultural Studies of Science Education
Abbreviation	Cult. Stud. Sci. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1871-1502
ISSN (online)	1871-1510
Scope	Cultural Studies