How to format your references using the International Review of Education citation style

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

Donlan, J. (2005). Re-wilding North America. Nature, 436(7053), 913–914.

A journal article with 2 authors

Artursson, P., & Knight, S. D. (2015). Structural biology. Breaking the intestinal barrier to deliver drugs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6223), 716–717.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bahmani, B., Bacon, D., & Anvari, B. (2013). Erythrocyte-derived photo-theranostic agents: hybrid nano-vesicles containing indocyanine green for near infrared imaging and therapeutic applications. Scientific reports, 3, 2180.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wheeler, T. M., Sobczak, K., Lueck, J. D., Osborne, R. J., Lin, X., Dirksen, R. T., & Thornton, C. A. (2009). Reversal of RNA dominance by displacement of protein sequestered on triplet repeat RNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5938), 336–339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowlinson, M. (2010). A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Maheshwari, D. K. (Ed.). (2011). Plant Growth and Health Promoting Bacteria (Vol. 18). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Balsamo, S., Cavallin, F., Marin, A., & Rossi, S. (2016). Applying Reversibility Theory for the Performance Evaluation of Reversible Computations. In S. Wittevrongel & T. Phung-Duc (Eds.), Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications: 23rd International Conference, ASMTA 2016, Cardiff, UK, August 24-26, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 45–59). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Review of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 13). Why Do We Hallucinate? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-study-offers-insight-emergence-hallucinations/. 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. (1981). Alternatives for Funding a GI Bill (No. FPCD-81-45). 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

Topdemir, C. M. (2010). School counselor accountability practices: A national study (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Crow, K. (2001, April 8). You Let Your Hair Down, and This Barkeep Cuts It. New York Times, p. 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donlan 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Artursson and Knight 2015; Donlan 2005).

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

Two authors: (Artursson and Knight 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wheeler et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Education
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0020-8566
ISSN (online)	1573-0638
Scope	Education