How to format your references using the Chemistry Education Research and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemistry Education Research and Practice (CERP). 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

Speirs V., (2012), Perspective: Not just for women. Nature, 485(7400), S66.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray N. and Chouard T., (2009), Neurotechniques. Nature, 461(7266), 899.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winkler W., Nahvi A., and Breaker R. R., (2002), Thiamine derivatives bind messenger RNAs directly to regulate bacterial gene expression. Nature, 419(6910), 952–956.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang X.-D., Wu Y.-Y., A-Ping Liu, and Wang P., (2013), Spatio-temporal dynamics of automatic processing of phonological information in visual words. Sci. Rep., 3, 3485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brigo D., Morini M., and Pallavicini A., (2013), Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Skopina M., (2016), Multivariate Wavelet Frames, Krivoshein A. and Protasov V. (eds.) Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Klaus P. “phil” and Edvardsson B., (2014), Striking the Right Balance: How to Design, Implement, and Operationalize Customer Experience Management Programs, in Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater?, Baglieri E. and Karmarkar U. (eds.)., Springer International Publishing, pp. 69–89.

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 Chemistry Education Research and Practice.

Blog post

Taub B., (2016), World’s Oldest Human Bone Reportedly Found In Saudi Arabia. IFLScience.

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, (2016), Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve Their Application Inventories to Achieve Additional Savings, 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

Sarantopoulos N. D., (2008), The relationship between values and leadership styles of nonprofit leaders.

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 M., (2012), Sculptured By Weights And a Strict Vegan Diet. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Speirs, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gray and Chouard, 2009; Speirs, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Chouard, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chemistry Education Research and Practice
Abbreviation	Chem. Educ. Res. Pr.
ISSN (print)	1756-1108
ISSN (online)	1109-4028
Scope	Chemistry (miscellaneous) Education