How to format your references using the Constructivist Foundations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Constructivist Foundations. 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

Barbier E. B. (2015) Policy: Hurricane Katrina’s lessons for the world. Nature 524(7565): 285–287.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lea A. M. & Ryan M. J. (2015) SEXUAL SELECTION. Irrationality in mate choice revealed by túngara frogs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349(6251): 964–966.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fonseca P. J., Münch D. & Hennig R. M. (2000) How cicadas interpret acoustic signals. Nature 405(6784): 297–298.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schroeder B. C., Waldegger S., Fehr S., Bleich M., Warth R., Greger R. & Jentsch T. J. (2000) A constitutively open potassium channel formed by KCNQ1 and KCNE3. Nature 403(6766): 196–199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joglekar A. M. (2010) Industrial Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Stitik T. P. (ed.) (2011) Injection Procedures: Osteoarthritis and Related Conditions. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Wong P. Y. H. & Gibbons J. (2009) Property Specifications for Workflow Modelling. In: Leuschel M. & Wehrheim H. (eds.) Integrated Formal Methods: 7th International Conference, IFM 2009, Düsseldorf, Germany, February 16-19, 2009. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 56–71.

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 Constructivist Foundations.

Blog post

Davis J. (2015) The EPA Might Have Been Underestimating The Amount Of Methane Emitted By The U.S. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/epa-might-have-been-underestimating-amount-methane-emitted-us/

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 (2000) Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kim E. H. (2010) A personal narrative of a Korean immigrant to the United States: A quest for finding a niche. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg B. (2017) Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous. New York Times C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barbier 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Barbier 2015, Lea & Ryan 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lea & Ryan 2015)
Three or more authors: (Schroeder et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Constructivist Foundations
ISSN (print)	1782-348X
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