How to format your references using the Cambridge Journal of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cambridge Journal of 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Alonzo, S. H. (2015). Evolution. An unexpected cost of sex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6225), 948–949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sugita, M., & Shiba, Y. (2005). Genetic tracing shows segregation of taste neuronal circuitries for bitter and sweet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5735), 781–785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plaks, V., Koopman, C. D., & Werb, Z. (2013). Cancer. Circulating tumor cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6151), 1186–1188.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kannan, R., Singh, K., Gill, S., Fürstenhaupt, T., & Thangadurai, V. (2013). Chemically stable proton conducting doped BaCeO₃ -no more fear to SOFC wastes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kesidis, G. (2007). An Introduction to Communication Network Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bian, F., & Xie, Y. (Eds.). (2015). Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem: Second International Conference, GRMSE 2014, Ypsilanti, MI, USA, October 3-5, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 482). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kerenidis, I., Laurière, M., & Xiao, D. (2014). New Lower Bounds for Privacy in Communication Protocols. In C. Padró (Ed.), Information Theoretic Security: 7th International Conference, ICITS 2013, Singapore, November 28-30, 2013, Proceedings (pp. 69–89). 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 Cambridge Journal of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 14). Early Scorpions May Have Transitioned To Land Earlier Than Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-scorpions-may-have-transitioned-land-earlier-thought/

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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Concerns About Compliance Information on Biomedical Equipment (T-AIMD-99-209). 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

Russo, C. A. (2014). The potential harms of breast cancer screening: estimating the unnecessary surgical diagnosis of benign breast lesions and its impact on quality and cost among insured women younger than 65 years old [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

Kinsley, M. (2017, May 27). Paid Leave Counts as Progress. New York Times, SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alonzo, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Alonzo, 2015; Sugita & Shiba, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sugita & Shiba, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kannan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cambridge Journal of Education
Abbreviation	Camb. J. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0305-764X
ISSN (online)	1469-3577
Scope	Education