How to format your references using the Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of 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	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

Gibson, V. C. (2006). Chemistry. Shuttling polyolefins to a new materials dimension. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5774), 703–704.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oldham, M. L., & Chen, J. (2011). Crystal structure of the maltose transporter in a pretranslocation intermediate state. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6034), 1202–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mei, L., Chen, Y., & Ma, J. (2014). Gas sensing of SnO2 nanocrystals revisited: developing ultra-sensitive sensors for detecting the H2S leakage of biogas. Scientific Reports, 4, 6028.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Simoncini, T., Hafezi-Moghadam, A., Brazil, D. P., Ley, K., Chin, W. W., & Liao, J. K. (2000). Interaction of oestrogen receptor with the regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase. Nature, 407(6803), 538–541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein, R. L. (2011). Kinetics of Enzyme Action. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hayat, S., & Ahmad, A. (Eds.). (2007). Salicylic Acid: A Plant Hormone. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Alepis, E., & Virvou, M. (2014). Mobile Authoring in Educational Software. In M. Virvou (Ed.), Object-Oriented User Interfaces for Personalized Mobile Learning (pp. 31–46). 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 Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 14). This Self-Driving Car Comes With A Landing Pad For A Drone. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/self-driving-car-comes-landing-pad-drone/

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. (1980). Routine Disclosure of Broadcaster Financial Records (111721). 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

Griner, K. F. (2014). The Effectiveness of the Integrative Career Counseling Model [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Brantley, B. (2017, March 24). A Star Still Airlifts the Show. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Gibson, 2006; Oldham & Chen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Oldham & Chen, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Simoncini et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Abbreviation	Discourse
ISSN (print)	0159-6306
ISSN (online)	1469-3739
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education Linguistics and Language