How to format your references using the International Journal of Educational Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Educational Development. 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

Lorenz, R., 2003. Computational mathematics. Full steam ahead-probably. Science 299, 837–838.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lowell, T.V., Kelly, M.A., 2008. Climate. Was the Younger Dryas global? Science 321, 348–349.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cochran, W.W., Mouritsen, H., Wikelski, M., 2004. Migrating songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from twilight cues. Science 304, 405–408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Prakash, B., Praefcke, G.J., Renault, L., Wittinghofer, A., Herrmann, C., 2000. Structure of human guanylate-binding protein 1 representing a unique class of GTP-binding proteins. Nature 403, 567–571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perrin, V., 2013. MRI Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Thoma, J., 2006. Simulation with Entropy Thermodynamics: Understanding Matter and Systems with Bondgraphs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, B.J., 2009. Weathering Processes and Forms, in: Parsons, A.J., Abrahams, A.D. (Eds.), Geomorphology of Desert Environments. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 69–100.

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 Educational Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. How The Bacteria In Our Gut Affect Our Cravings For Food [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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. District of Columbia Public Schools: Enrollment Count Still Appears Vulnerable to Errors (No. T-HEHS-98-91). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, J., 2010. Community based human trafficking awareness program: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2012. Wisely Stepping Aside In a Bombarded City. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lorenz, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lorenz, 2003; Lowell and Kelly, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lowell and Kelly, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Prakash et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Educational Development
Abbreviation	Int. J. Educ. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0738-0593
Scope	Development Education Sociology and Political Science