How to format your references using the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 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

Richards, Paul G. 2005. “Obituary: Keiiti Aki (1930-2005).” Nature 435 (7046): 1176.

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins, Matthew J., and Stuart J. H. Graham. 2009. “Intellectual Property. Balancing Innovation and Access: Patent Challenges Tip the Scales.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5951): 370–371.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Y. C., T. H. Cheng, and M. R. Gartenberg. 2001. “Establishment of Transcriptional Silencing in the Absence of DNA Replication.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5504): 650–653.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Duman-Scheel, Molly, Li Weng, Shijie Xin, and Wei Du. 2002. “Hedgehog Regulates Cell Growth and Proliferation by Inducing Cyclin D and Cyclin E.” Nature 417 (6886): 299–304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doldi, Laurent. 2005. Validation of Communications Systems with SDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

DeJaeghere, Joan G., Jasmina Josić, and Kate S. McCleary, eds. 2016. Education and Youth Agency: Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts. Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson, David Lee, and James Albright. 2012. “The Technology of Portfolios.” In Composing a Care of the Self: A Critical History of Writing Assessment in Secondary English Education, edited by David Lee Carlson and James Albright, 123–141. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2015. “Racehorses Defy Expectations and Continue to Get Faster.” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 24. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/racehorses-defy-expectations-and-continue-get-faster/.

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. 2010. Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program. GAO-11-21. 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

Rendleman, Annie Jean. 2017. “Energetics of Physiological Plasticity during Larval Development of the Sand Dollar, Dendraster Excentricus.” 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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. “Some Chafe at Rules Meant to Protect Youngest Girls.” New York Times, September 11, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richards 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Richards 2005; Higgins and Graham 2009).

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

Two authors: (Higgins and Graham 2009)
Three authors: (Li, Cheng, and Gartenberg 2001)
4 or more authors: (Duman-Scheel et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biling. Educ. Biling.
ISSN (print)	1367-0050
ISSN (online)	1747-7522
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Linguistics and Language