How to format your references using the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. 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

Brumfiel, G. (2003). Cosmology: welcome to the real world. Nature, 426(6968), 751.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hetz, S. K., & Bradley, T. J. (2005). Insects breathe discontinuously to avoid oxygen toxicity. Nature, 433(7025), 516–519.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, D., Zhang, P., & Yan, J. (2014). Ab initio molecular dynamics study of high-pressure melting of beryllium oxide. Scientific reports, 4, 4707.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Monson, R. K., Lipson, D. L., Burns, S. P., Turnipseed, A. A., Delany, A. C., Williams, M. W., & Schmidt, S. K. (2006). Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and microbial community composition. Nature, 439(7077), 711–714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Villalta, T. (2012). The Large-Cap Portfolio. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Malyshkin, V. (Ed.). (2015). Parallel Computing Technologies: 13th International Conference, PaCT 2015, Petrozavodsk, Russia, August 31-September 4, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 9251). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, J., Wang, S., & Ma, J. (2015). Experiments and Results. In S. Wang & J. Ma (Eds.), Protein Homology Detection Through Alignment of Markov Random Fields: Using MRFalign (pp. 37–48). 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 New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, June 8). Sex Lives Of Australian “Demon Ducks” Determined From Treasure Trove Of Fossils. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sex-lives-of-australian-demon-ducks-determined-from-treasure-trove-of-fossils/. 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. (1994). Working Capital Funds: Three Agency Perspectives (No. AIMD-94-121). 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

Obiedat, M. (2015). Incrementally Sorted Lattice Data Structures (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Williams, J. (2017, May 3). Journalists In Australia Stage Strike Over Job Cuts. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel 2003; Hetz and Bradley 2005).

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

Two authors: (Hetz and Bradley 2005)
Three or more authors: (Monson et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies
Abbreviation	N. Z.. J. Educ. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0028-8276
ISSN (online)	2199-4714
Scope	Education