How to format your references using the Journal of Education for Teaching citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Education for Teaching. 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

Kramers, J. 2001. “Geology. The Smile of the Cheshire Cat.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5530): 619–620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ge, Xiaochen, and Sailing He. 2014. “Experimental Realization of an Open Cavity.” Scientific Reports 4 (August 2014): 5965.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubilier, Nicole, Margaret McFall-Ngai, and Liping Zhao. 2015. “Microbiology: Create a Global Microbiome Effort.” Nature 526 (7575): 631–634.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shao, Yongliang, Lei Zhang, Xiaopeng Hao, Yongzhong Wu, Yuanbin Dai, Yuan Tian, and Qin Huo. 2014. “Large Area Stress Distribution in Crystalline Materials Calculated from Lattice Deformation Identified by Electron Backscatter Diffraction.” Scientific Reports 4 (August 2014): 5934.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boberski, Vincent. 2010. Community Banking Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rauscher, Raymond Charles. 2014. Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA: Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments. Edited by Salim Momtaz. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Jie, and Ran Bai. 2013. “Research of FMCW for Perfect Binary Sequences Pairs.” In Advances in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering: Volume 3, edited by David Jin and Sally Lin, 21–27. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. 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 Journal of Education for Teaching.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “New Findings: Anxiety Is Linked To Death From Cancer In Men.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 19.

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. 1989. Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Implementation of Modernization Projects in the Field. RCED-89-92. 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

Collette, Jantzen C. 2017. “Validation of the tgFgfr1-EGFP Mouse Line as a Tool to Study Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Cellular Localization and Expression After Experimental Manipulations.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana.

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

Steinhauer, Jennifer, Glenn Thrush, and Robert Pear. 2017. “How a Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President.” New York Times, July 19, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kramers 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kramers 2001; Ge and He 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ge and He 2014)
Three authors: (Dubilier, McFall-Ngai, and Zhao 2015)
4 or more authors: (Shao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Education for Teaching
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Teach.
ISSN (print)	0260-7476
ISSN (online)	1360-0540
Scope	Education