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

Palmer T., (2014), Atmospheric science. Record-breaking winters and global climate change. Science, 344(6186), 803–804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Majumder M. A. and Cohen C. B., (2009), Research ethics. The NIH draft guidelines on human stem cell research. Science, 324(5935), 1648–1649.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liljeroth P., Repp J., and Meyer G., (2007), Current-induced hydrogen tautomerization and conductance switching of naphthalocyanine molecules. Science, 317(5842), 1203–1206.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu M., Hoffman J., Wang J., Zhang J., Nelson-Cheeseman B., and Bhattacharya A., (2013), Non-volatile ferroelastic switching of the Verwey transition and resistivity of epitaxial Fe3O4/PMN-PT (011). Sci. Rep., 3, 1876.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen S. and Huang P., (2011), Principles of Tribology, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Chakraborty G. ed., (2005), Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: Second International Conference, ICDCIT 2005, Bhubaneswar, India, December 22-24, 2005. Proceedings, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xiang L., (2012), Simulation System of Examination Score Analysis Based on an Improved Apriori Algorithm, in Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, Zeng D. (ed.) Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, pp. 19–25.

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

Fang J., (2015), New Horned Dino Rocked a Crown-Shaped Frill. 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, (1998), U.S. Postal Service: Postal and Telecommunications Sector Representation in International Organizations, 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

Sheldon A., (2010), The impact of power restoration and narcissism on aggression.

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

Branch J., (2016), Finding a Home in the Sand. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palmer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Majumder and Cohen, 2009; Palmer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Majumder and Cohen, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Liu 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