How to format your references using the International Journal of Early Years Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Early Years 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

Maldovan, Martin. 2013. “Sound and Heat Revolutions in Phononics.” Nature 503 (7475): 209–217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Divakaruni, Ajit S., and Anne N. Murphy. 2012. “Cell Biology. A Mitochondrial Mystery, Solved.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6090): 41–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

McAlonan, Kerry, James Cavanaugh, and Robert H. Wurtz. 2008. “Guarding the Gateway to Cortex with Attention in Visual Thalamus.” Nature 456 (7220): 391–394.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Peng, Jinbo, Duanyun Cao, Zhili He, Jing Guo, Prokop Hapala, Runze Ma, Bowei Cheng, et al. 2018. “Publisher Correction: The Effect of Hydration Number on the Interfacial Transport of Sodium Ions.” Nature 563 (7729): E18.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weisberg, Herbert I. 2014. Willful Ignorance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maji, Pradipta. 2014. Scalable Pattern Recognition Algorithms: Applications in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Edited by Sushmita Paul. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Meesenburg, H., R. Brumme, C. Jacobsen, K. J. Meiwes, and J. Eichhorn. 2009. “Soil Properties.” In Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems, edited by Rainer Brumme and Partap K. Khanna, 33–47. Ecological Studies. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Early Years Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “See Inside A Tiger Shark’s Mouth As It Gobbles A GoPro.” IFLScience, IFLScience, November 7. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/see-inside-tiger-sharks-mouth-it-gobbles-gopro/.

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. 1986. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 12. 131721. 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

Kostenbader, Tracy C. 2015. “Analyzing Students’ Attitudes towards Science during Inquiry-Based Lessons.” 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

MacFARQUHAR, Neil. 2016. “Russia Charges Minister in an Oil Bribery Scandal.” New York Times, November 15, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maldovan 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Maldovan 2013; Divakaruni and Murphy 2012).

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

Two authors: (Divakaruni and Murphy 2012)
Three authors: (McAlonan, Cavanaugh, and Wurtz 2008)
4 or more authors: (Peng et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Early Years Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Early Years Educ.
ISSN (print)	0966-9760
ISSN (online)	1469-8463
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education