How to format your references using the Teacher Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Teacher Development. 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

Standen, N. 2000. “Tuning Channels for Blood Pressure.” Nature 407 (6806): 845, 847–848.

A journal article with 2 authors

Etterson, J. R., and R. G. Shaw. 2001. “Constraint to Adaptive Evolution in Response to Global Warming.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 (5540): 151–154.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, Qian, Kenneth F. Haynes, and Xuguo Zhou. 2013. “Differential Undertaking Response of a Lower Termite to Congeneric and Conspecific Corpses.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1650.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pornillos, Owen, Yen-Ju Chen, Andy P. Chen, and Geoffrey Chang. 2005. “X-Ray Structure of the EmrE Multidrug Transporter in Complex with a Substrate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5756): 1950–1953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman, Steven H. 2006. ESD. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gaul, Wolfgang, Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Yasumasa Baba, and Akinori Okada, eds. 2014. German-Japanese Interchange of Data Analysis Results. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Alsos, Gry Agnete, Tommy Høyvarde Clausen, and Espen John Isaksen. 2016. “Innovation Among Public-Sector Organisations: Push and Pull Factors.” In Entrepreneurial and Innovative Practices in Public Institutions: A Quality of Life Approach, edited by João Leitão and Helena Alves, 81–98. Applying Quality of Life Research. 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 Teacher Development.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “Mysterious White Object Spotted On Ceres.” IFLScience, IFLScience, January 26.

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. 1972. Cost Information on the Desegregation of the School Systems in Mobile County and Wilcox County, Alabama. B-164031(1). 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

Miles, Craig S. 2015. “Elicitation of a Program’s Behaviors.” 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

Vecsey, George. 2012. “Friendships Wrapped in the Army-Navy Rivalry.” New York Times, September 27, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Standen 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Standen 2000; Etterson and Shaw 2001).

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

Two authors: (Etterson and Shaw 2001)
Three authors: (Sun, Haynes, and Zhou 2013)
4 or more authors: (Pornillos et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Teacher Development
ISSN (print)	1366-4530
ISSN (online)	1747-5120
Scope	Education