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

Klemperer, W. (2001). Astronomy. The complex story of H2. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5531), 815–816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, X., & Tung, K.-K. (2014). Climate. Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6199), 897–903.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parker, H. J., Bronner, M. E., & Krumlauf, R. (2014). A Hox regulatory network of hindbrain segmentation is conserved to the base of vertebrates. Nature, 514(7523), 490–493.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, P., Min, D., DiMaio, F., Wei, K. Y., Vahey, M. D., Boyken, S. E., Chen, Z., Fallas, J. A., Ueda, G., Sheffler, W., Mulligan, V. K., Xu, W., Bowie, J. U., & Baker, D. (2018). Accurate computational design of multipass transmembrane proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6379), 1042–1046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lahdenmäki, T., & Leach, M. (2005). Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Frost, S. C., & McKenna, R. (Eds.). (2014). Carbonic Anhydrase: Mechanism, Regulation, Links to Disease, and Industrial Applications (Vol. 75). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao, L. (2016). Forging a Harmonious Relationship Among the Ethnic Groups. In S. Tsang & H. Men (Eds.), China in the Xi Jinping Era (pp. 97–121). 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 Curriculum Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, November 7). NASA And FEMA Ran An Asteroid Impact Emergency Planning Exercise. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-and-fema-ran-an-asteroid-impact-emergency-planning-exercise/

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. (1984). OMB Needs To More Fully Consider Government-Wide Implications in Its Telecommunications Initiatives (IMTEC-84-21). 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

Frederick, K. (2009). Wool and Water [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Goodstein, L., & Shear, M. D. (2017, May 4). Trump’s Order on Religious Liberty Pleases Some, but Lets Down Conservatives. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klemperer, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Chen & Tung, 2014; Klemperer, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Tung, 2014)
Three authors: (Parker et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Lu et al., 2018)

About the journal

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