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

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

Smaglik, P. (2002). A climate of uncertainty. Nature, 415(6870), 6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanguinetti, M. C., & Tristani-Firouzi, M. (2006). hERG potassium channels and cardiac arrhythmia. Nature, 440(7083), 463–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holland, N. D., Holland, L. Z., & Holland, P. W. H. (2015). Scenarios for the making of vertebrates. Nature, 520(7548), 450–455.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dai, S., Friemann, R., Glauser, D. A., Bourquin, F., Manieri, W., Schürmann, P., & Eklund, H. (2007). Structural snapshots along the reaction pathway of ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase. Nature, 448(7149), 92–96.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Law, H. (2013). The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Hofmann, D. W. M., & Kuleshova, L. N. (Eds.). (2010). Data Mining in Crystallography (Vol. 134). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Celik, I. B., & Pakalapati, S. R. (2008). From a Single Cell to a Stack Modeling. In R. Bove & S. Ubertini (Eds.), Modeling Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Methods, Procedures and Techniques (pp. 123–182). Springer Netherlands.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 13). NASA To Investigate Microgravity Effect On Astronauts’ Balance. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-investigate-microgravity-effect-astronauts-balance/

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). Food Assistance: Computerized Information Matching Could Reduce Fraud and Abuse in the Food Stamp Program (T-RCED-98-254). 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

Bravo, D. (2013). Parents’ perspectives of undocumented students’ transition from high school [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

Koblin, J. (2017, October 27). Political Journalist Halperin Posts Apology to Women He ‘Mistreated.’ New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Sanguinetti & Tristani-Firouzi, 2006; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sanguinetti & Tristani-Firouzi, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Dai et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Educational Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	0883-0355
Scope	Education