How to format your references using the The Australian Educational Researcher citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Australian Educational Researcher. 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

Savage, N. (2015). Metastasis: Resistance fighters. Nature, 528(7582), S128-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Povolotskaya, I. S., & Kondrashov, F. A. (2010). Sequence space and the ongoing expansion of the protein universe. Nature, 465(7300), 922–926.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, N., Ji, A., & Cao, Z. (2013). Nearly constant electrical resistance over large temperature range in Cu3NMx (M = Cu, Ag, Au) compounds. Scientific reports, 3, 3090.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Garcia-Barriocanal, J., Rivera-Calzada, A., Varela, M., Sefrioui, Z., Iborra, E., Leon, C., et al. (2008). Colossal ionic conductivity at interfaces of epitaxial ZrO2:Y2O3/SrTiO3 heterostructures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5889), 676–680.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pick, J. B. (2012). Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Amyot, D., & Williams, A. W. (Eds.). (2005). System Analysis and Modeling: 4th International SDL and MSC Workshop, SAM 2004, Ottawa, Canada, June 1-4, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3319). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Flesca, S., Furfaro, F., & Parisi, F. (2011). Consistent Answers to Aggregate Queries. In F. Furfaro & F. Parisi (Eds.), Repairing and Querying Databases under Aggregate Constraints (pp. 47–54). New York, NY: 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 The Australian Educational Researcher.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 30). Scientists Work Out How To Make Chocolate Healthier And More Flavorful. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2008). Federal-Aid Highways: Federal Requirements for Highways May Influence Funding Decisions and Create Challenges, but Benefits and Costs Are Not Tracked (No. GAO-09-36). 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

Wang, X. (2017). Inferences on Gamma Distributions: Uncensored and Censored Cases (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, April 5). Lugo’s Tear to Cost Him Two Weeks, Minimum. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Povolotskaya and Kondrashov 2010; Savage 2015).

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

Two authors: (Povolotskaya and Kondrashov 2010)
Three or more authors: (Garcia-Barriocanal et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Australian Educational Researcher
Abbreviation	Aust. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	0311-6999
ISSN (online)	2210-5328
Scope	Education