How to format your references using the Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science (ERIES). 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

Sincell, M. (2000) 'MOLECULAR STRUCTURE: Physicists Glimpse How Quasicrystals Boogie', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 289, no. 5484, pp. 1451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wikelski, M. and Thom, C. (2000) 'Marine iguanas shrink to survive El Niño', Nature, vol. 403, no. 6765, pp. 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roughgarden, J., Oishi, M. and Akçay, E. (2006) 'Reproductive social behavior: cooperative games to replace sexual selection', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 311, no. 5763, pp. 965–969.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, Q., Liu, Z. L., Ning, K., Wang, A., Zeng, X. and Xu, J. (2014) 'Genomic and transcriptome analyses reveal that MAPK- and phosphatidylinositol-signaling pathways mediate tolerance to 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde for industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae', Scientific Reports, vol. 4, pp. 6556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, T., Andrews, G. J., Cummins, S., Greenhough, B., Lewis, D. and Power, A. (2017) Health Geographies, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kim, H. K., Ao, S.-I. and Amouzegar, M. A. (ed.) (2014) Transactions on Engineering Technologies: Special Issue of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2013, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Commowick, O. and Warfield, S. K. (2010) 'Incorporating Priors on Expert Performance Parameters for Segmentation Validation and Label Fusion: A Maximum a Posteriori STAPLE', In T. Jiang, N. Navab, J. P. W. Pluim, & M. A. Viergever (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010: 13th International Conference, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 25–32), 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 on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, May 15) Carnivorous Bats Evolved Special Skulls, . [Online], Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/carnivorous-bats-evolved-special-skulls/ [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 (2000) Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Still Exist in the Aviation Security System (No. T-RCED/AIMD-00-142), 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

Moro, J. M. (2017) School Improvement Grants at Work: A Study of Urban, Public New England Schools (Doctoral dissertation), Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Conte, L. (2011, March 24) 'Scouting Report', New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sincell, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Sincell, 2000; Wikelski and Thom, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Wikelski and Thom, 2000)
Three authors: (Roughgarden, Oishi and Akçay, 2006)
6 or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science
ISSN (print)	2336-2375
ISSN (online)	1803-1617
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