How to format your references using the International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy citation style

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

Goodby, J. W. (2004). Obituary: Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930-2004). Nature, 428(6986), 906.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yen, H.-C. S., & Elledge, S. J. (2008). Identification of SCF ubiquitin ligase substrates by global protein stability profiling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 923–929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dyall, S. D., Brown, M. T., & Johnson, P. J. (2004). Ancient invasions: from endosymbionts to organelles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 253–257.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Qian, X., Kraft, J., Ni, Y., & Zhao, F.-Q. (2014). Production of recombinant human proinsulin in the milk of transgenic mice. Scientific reports, 4, 6465.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, R., & Gutiérrez-Albilla, J. D. (2013). A Companion to Luis Buñuel. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Merkuryev, Y., Merkuryeva, G., Piera, M. À., & Guasch, A. (Eds.). (2009). Simulation-Based Case Studies in Logistics: Education and Applied Research. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Weinberg, A. D. (2010). The Role of OX40 (CD134) in T-Cell Memory Generation. In M. Zanetti & S. P. Schoenberger (Eds.), Memory T Cells (pp. 57–68). New York, NY: 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 International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 1). Increased Typhoon Intensity Linked To Ocean Warming. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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). Highlights of an Expert Panel: The Benefits and Costs of Highway and Transit Investments (No. GAO-05-423SP). 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

Hubbard, W. L. (2009). The perceptions of public school administrators toward technology effectiveness and adequacy in curriculum and instruction in the Golden Triangle Public Schools of Mississippi (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2002, August 25). Russian Novelist Scoffs at Post-Soviet Leaders. New York Times, p. 114.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodby 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Goodby 2004; Yen and Elledge 2008).

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

Two authors: (Yen and Elledge 2008)
Three or more authors: (Qian et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
ISSN (online)	2288-6729
Scope