How to format your references using the Curriculum Journal citation style

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

Silk, J. (2006). Astronomy. A journey through time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5789), 925–926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Louf, R., & Barthelemy, M. (2014). How congestion shapes cities: from mobility patterns to scaling. Scientific Reports, 4, 5561.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bockrath, C., Ballhaus, C., & Holzheid, A. (2004). Fractionation of the platinum-group elements during mantle melting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5692), 1951–1953.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhao, C., Zheng, W., Wang, X., Zhang, H., Cui, X., & Wang, H. (2013). Ultrahigh capacitive performance from both Co(OH)₂/graphene electrode and K₃Fe(CN)₆ electrolyte. Scientific Reports, 3, 2986.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tasman, A., Kay, J., & Ursano, R. J. (2013). The Psychiatric Interview. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Huang, D.-S., Li, K., & Irwin, G. W. (Eds.). (2006). Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics: International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2006, Kunming, China, August 16-19, 2006. Proceedings, Part III (Vol. 4115). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Capps, J., Daniels, M., Sosolik, C. E., & Marinescu, D. C. (2016). Friedel oscillations in a lateral superlattice with spin-orbit interaction. In M. Polini, G. Vignale, V. Pellegrini, & J. K. Jain (Eds.), No-nonsense Physicist: An overview of Gabriele Giuliani’s work and life (pp. 45–60). Scuola Normale Superiore.

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 Curriculum Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 1). Two New Anti-HIV Molecules Identified. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/two-new-anti-hiv-molecules-identified/

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. (1997). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Success Depends Upon Strong Management and Structured Approach (T-AIMD-97-173). 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

Penix-Tadsen, P. (2009). Marketing marginality: Resistance and commodification in contemporary Latin American cultural production [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Schwartz, J. (2016, November 21). Exxon’s Unlikely Enemy. 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 (Silk, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Louf & Barthelemy, 2014; Silk, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Louf & Barthelemy, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Curriculum Journal
Abbreviation	Curric. J.
ISSN (print)	0958-5176
ISSN (online)	1469-3704
Scope	Education