How to format your references using the Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2004). Spain aims at premier league. Nature, 431(7007), 488–489.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strässer, K., & Hurt, E. (2001). Splicing factor Sub2p is required for nuclear mRNA export through its interaction with Yra1p. Nature, 413(6856), 648–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beatty, C. D., Beirinckx, K., & Sherratt, T. N. (2004). The evolution of müllerian mimicry in multispecies communities. Nature, 431(7004), 63–66.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Verhaar, A. P., Hoekstra, E., Tjon, A. S. W., Utomo, W. K., Deuring, J. J., Bakker, E. R. M., Muncan, V., & Peppelenbosch, M. P. (2014). Dichotomal effect of space flight-associated microgravity on stress-activated protein kinases in innate immunity. Scientific Reports, 4, 5468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, W. (2015). Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Albers, S., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., Matias, Y., Nikoletseas, S., & Thomas, W. (Eds.). (2009). Automata, Languages and Programming: 36th Internatilonal Collogquium, ICALP 2009, Rhodes, greece, July 5-12, 2009, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 5556). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Thompson, H. J., Jiang, W., & Zhu, Z. (2011). Energetics and Cancer: Exploring a Road Less Traveled. In A. McTiernan (Ed.), Physical Activity, Dietary Calorie Restriction, and Cancer (pp. 55–67). Springer.

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 Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, February 28). Zika Virus May Shrink Testicles And Cause Fertility Problems In Men. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zika-virus-may-shrink-testicles-and-cause-fertility-problems-in-men/

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. (2001). Telecommunications: Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program Implementation and Management (GAO-01-798T). 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

Berbery, M. L. (2010). Predictors of White adoptive parents’ cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, March 4). Friday File: A Look at the Golden Age for Oscar-Nominated Newspaper Movies. New York Times, C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier, 2004; Strässer & Hurt, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Strässer & Hurt, 2001)
Three authors: (Beatty et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Verhaar et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Abbreviation	Discourse
ISSN (print)	0159-6306
ISSN (online)	1469-3739
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education Linguistics and Language