How to format your references using the Curriculum Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Curriculum Journal. 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

Calvert, A. J. (2004). Seismic reflection imaging of two megathrust shear zones in the northern Cascadia subduction zone. Nature, 428(6979), 163–167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Witt, E., & Ashworth, A. (2002). Biomedicine. D-Day for BRCA2. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5581), 534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cramer, P., Bushnell, D. A., & Kornberg, R. D. (2001). Structural basis of transcription: RNA polymerase II at 2.8 angstrom resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5523), 1863–1876.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Anderson, K., Lutz, C., van Delft, F. W., Bateman, C. M., Guo, Y., Colman, S. M., Kempski, H., Moorman, A. V., Titley, I., Swansbury, J., Kearney, L., Enver, T., & Greaves, M. (2011). Genetic variegation of clonal architecture and propagating cells in leukaemia. Nature, 469(7330), 356–361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner-Martin, L. (2012). A History of American Literature. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Baskin, L. (2015). Resonant Tunneling: Quantum Waveguides of Variable Cross-Section, Asymptotics, Numerics, and Applications (P. Neittaanmäki, B. Plamenevskii, & O. Sarafanov, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nebel, B. (2012). Editorial. In E. Prassler, M. Zöllner, R. Bischoff, W. Burgard, R. Haschke, M. Hägele, G. Lawitzky, B. Nebel, P. Plöger, & U. Reiser (Eds.), Towards Service Robots for Everyday Environments: Recent Advances in Designing Service Robots for Complex Tasks in Everyday Environments (pp. 45–47). 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 Curriculum Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, October 3). Dominance-Asserting “Power Poses” Are Probably As Ineffective As They Are Awkward. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dominanceasserting-power-poses-ineffective-awkward/

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. (1998). Mass Transit: Grants Management Oversight Improving, but Better Follow-up Needed on Grantees’ Noncompliance (RCED-98-89). 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

Nasrollahzadeh, Y. (2013). Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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. (2012, July 22). Bridget Kelly and Eric Strauss. New York Times, ST11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Calvert, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Calvert, 2004; Witt & Ashworth, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Witt & Ashworth, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Anderson et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Curriculum Journal
Abbreviation	Curric. J.
ISSN (print)	0958-5176
ISSN (online)	1469-3704
Scope	Education