How to format your references using the Teaching Education citation style

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

Stern, P. (2009). Neuroscience methods. So you want to learn how to network? Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff, J. O., & Gorb, S. N. (2013). Radial arrangement of Janus-like setae permits friction control in spiders. Scientific Reports, 3, 1101.

A journal article with 3 authors

Little, A. F., van Oppen, M. J. H., & Willis, B. L. (2004). Flexibility in algal endosymbioses shapes growth in reef corals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1492–1494.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Salzberg, S. L., White, O., Peterson, J., & Eisen, J. A. (2001). Microbial genes in the human genome: lateral transfer or gene loss? Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5523), 1903–1906.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G., & Broniatowski, M. (2016). Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bilimoria, K. Y., Minami, C. A., & Mahvi, D. M. (Eds.). (2015). Comparative Effectiveness in Surgical Oncology: Key Questions and How to Answer Them (Vol. 164). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Knauth, S., Kaufmann, L., Jost, C., Kistler, R., & Klapproth, A. (2012). The iLoc Ultrasound Indoor Localization System at the EvAAL 2011 Competition. In S. Chessa & S. Knauth (Eds.), Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking. Indoor Localization and Tracking: International Competition, EvAAL 2011, Competition in Valencia, Spain, July 25-29, 2011, and Final Workshop in Lecce, Italy, September 26, 2011. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 52–64). 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 Teaching Education.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, May 19). Portugal Powered For Four Days Straight Entirely By Renewable Energy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/portugal-powered-four-days-straight-entirely-renewable-energy/

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. (2015). Results-Oriented Management: OPM Needs to Do More to Ensure Meaningful Distinctions Are Made in SES Ratings and Performance Awards (GAO-15-189). 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.

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

Barron, J. (2017, March 12). Keeping Historic, but Expensive, Fixer-Uppers Affordable. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stern, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Stern, 2009; Wolff & Gorb, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wolff & Gorb, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Salzberg et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Teaching Education
Abbreviation	Teach. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1047-6210
ISSN (online)	1470-1286
Scope	Education