How to format your references using the Cultural Studies of Science Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cultural Studies of Science Education (CSSE). 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 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

Aspinall, W. (2010). A route to more tractable expert advice. Nature, 463(7279), 294–295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belloc, E., & Méndez, R. (2008). A deadenylation negative feedback mechanism governs meiotic metaphase arrest. Nature, 452(7190), 1017–1021.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schliekelman, P., Garner, C., & Slatkin, M. (2001). Natural selection and resistance to HIV. Nature, 411(6837), 545–546.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sasaki, H., Yamamoto, K., Ichihashi, Y., & Senoh, T. (2014). Image size scalable full-parallax coloured three-dimensional video by electronic holography. Scientific Reports, 4, 4000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartley, T. (2011). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sharma, D. (2016). Biosurfactants of Lactic Acid Bacteria. (B. S. Saharan and S. Kapil, Eds.) (1st ed. 2016). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kalnins, A., & Barzdins, J. (2016). Metamodel Specialization for DSL Tool Building. In G. Arnicans, V. Arnicane, J. Borzovs, and L. Niedrite (Eds.), Databases and Information Systems: 12th International Baltic Conference, DB&IS 2016, Riga, Latvia, July 4-6, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 68–82). Cham: 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 Cultural Studies of Science Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 17). No, Chocolate Probably Won’t Protect You From Heart Disease and Stroke. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chocolate-probably-won-t-protect-you-heart-disease-and-stroke/

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. (1977). Review of NASA Contract To Determine Procedures Used in Negotiating Noncompetitive Contracts (No. 104925). Washington, DC: 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

Parajuli, B. (2014). Students’ Motivations towards Volunteerism: A Comparative Study of the United States and Nepal (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Leland, J. (2017, March 23). Midcentury City. New York Times, p. MB10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aspinall 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Aspinall 2010; Belloc and Méndez 2008).

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

Two authors: (Belloc and Méndez 2008)
Three authors: (Schliekelman, Garner, and Slatkin 2001)
6 or more authors: (Sasaki, Yamamoto, Ichihashi, and Senoh 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cultural Studies of Science Education
Abbreviation	Cult. Stud. Sci. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1871-1502
ISSN (online)	1871-1510
Scope	Cultural Studies