How to format your references using the Race Ethnicity and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Race Ethnicity and 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

Hopkins, Philip F. 2014. “Astrophysics: Stars Fight Back.” Nature 516 (7529): 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kind, Rainer, and Xiaohui Yuan. 2010. “Geophysics. Seismic Images of the Biggest Crash on Earth.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5998): 1479–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furuya, Takeru, Adam S. Kamlet, and Tobias Ritter. 2011. “Catalysis for Fluorination and Trifluoromethylation.” Nature 473 (7348): 470–477.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Srour, Myriam, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Jessica M. T. Pham, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Simon Girard, Steves Morin, Patrick A. Dion, et al. 2010. “Mutations in DCC Cause Congenital Mirror Movements.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5978): 592.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McConnell, Jonathan. 2011. Index of Medical Imaging. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Amsler, Charles D., ed. 2008. Algal Chemical Ecology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Millot, Daniel, and Christian Parrot. 2014. “Setting up Clusters of Computing Units to Process Several Data Streams Efficiently.” In Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 10th International Conference, PPAM 2013, Warsaw, Poland, September 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, edited by Roman Wyrzykowski, Jack Dongarra, Konrad Karczewski, and Jerzy Waśniewski, 49–61. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Race Ethnicity and Education.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Hyenas Get By With a Little Help From Their Friends of Friends.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 18. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hyenas-get-little-help-their-friends-friends/.

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. 2007. Information Technology: Homeland Security Information Network Needs to Be Better Coordinated with Key State and Local Initiatives. GAO-07-822T. 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

Whitesides, Vance J. 2017. “The Large Ensemble/European Classical Music Paradigm and African American-Originated Dance-Musicking: A Dispositival Analysis of U.S. Secondary Music Education.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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

Pilon, Mary. 2013. “The Dazzle of Neon.” New York Times, November 12, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hopkins 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hopkins 2014; Kind and Yuan 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kind and Yuan 2010)
Three authors: (Furuya, Kamlet, and Ritter 2011)
4 or more authors: (Srour et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Race Ethnicity and Education
Abbreviation	Race Ethn. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1361-3324
ISSN (online)	1470-109X
Scope	Education Cultural Studies Demography