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

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

Schiermeier, Q. 2000. “Austrian Physics Meeting Passes without Boycott.” Nature 406 (6791): 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, Xin, and Rui M. Costa. 2010. “Start/Stop Signals Emerge in Nigrostriatal Circuits during Sequence Learning.” Nature 466 (7305): 457–462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmawardhana, C. C., A. Misra, and Wai-Yim Ching. 2014. “Quantum Mechanical Metric for Internal Cohesion in Cement Crystals.” Scientific Reports 4 (December 2014): 7332.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Warren, Stephen M., Lisa J. Brunet, Richard M. Harland, Aris N. Economides, and Michael T. Longaker. 2003. “The BMP Antagonist Noggin Regulates Cranial Suture Fusion.” Nature 422 (6932): 625–629.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannon, Christopher M. 2011. An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Krutmann, Jean, and Philippe Humbert, eds. 2011. Nutrition for Healthy Skin: Strategies for Clinical and Cosmetic Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bikker, J. A., and J. de Dreu. 2007. “Operating Costs of Pension Schemes.” In Costs and Benefits of Collective Pension Systems, edited by Onno Steenbeek and Fieke van der Lecq, 51–74. 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 Peace Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Why Do Some People Feel The Cold More Than Others?” IFLScience, IFLScience, April 16. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-some-people-feel-cold-more-others/.

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. 2014. Department of Homeland Security: Continued Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight and Coordination of Research and Development. GAO-14-813T. 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

Rendleman, Annie Jean. 2017. “Energetics of Physiological Plasticity during Larval Development of the Sand Dollar, Dendraster Excentricus.” 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

Bilefsky, Dan, and Sewell Chan. 2017. “Dispute Over British Baby’s Fate Draws In President and Pope.” New York Times, July 3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2000; Jin and Costa 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jin and Costa 2010)
Three authors: (Dharmawardhana, Misra, and Ching 2014)
4 or more authors: (Warren et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Peace Education
Abbreviation	J. Peace Educ.
ISSN (print)	1740-0201
ISSN (online)	1740-021X
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations