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

Christianson D. W., (2006), Biochemistry. Five golden rings. Science, 311(5766), 1382–1383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weitzer S. and Martinez J., (2007), The human RNA kinase hClp1 is active on 3’ transfer RNA exons and short interfering RNAs. Nature, 447(7141), 222–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keller R. A., Fisk M. R., and White W. M., (2000), Isotopic evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-ridge interaction at the Hawaiian hotspot. Nature, 405(6787), 673–676.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dhillon M. S., Cockcroft C. J., Munsey T., Smith K. J., Powell A. J., Carter P., et al., (2014), A functional Kv1.2-hERG chimaeric channel expressed in Pichia pastoris. Sci. Rep., 4, 4201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seeber P. and Shander A., (2012), Basics of Blood Management, Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Shively C. A. and Wilson M. E. eds., (2016), Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates: The Biology of the Gradient, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Giorgetti A., Girgenti A., Citti P., and Delogu M., (2016), A Novel Approach for Axiomatic-Based Design for the Environment, in Axiomatic Design in Large Systems: Complex Products, Buildings and Manufacturing Systems, Farid A. M. and Suh N. P. (eds.)., Springer International Publishing, pp. 131–148.

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

Andrew E., (2015), Do Babies Feel Tickles In A Different Way To Adults? 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, (1990), International Aviation: Implications of Ratifying Montreal Aviation Protocol No. 3, 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

Byrd M. L., (2012), Investigating an Afterschool Program for Black Teenage Males Designed to Increase Self-Efficacy.

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

Greenhouse L., (2007), Supreme Court Constrains Judges’ Power in Sentencing. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Christianson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Christianson, 2006; Weitzer and Martinez, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weitzer and Martinez, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Dhillon et al., 2014)

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