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

Gough, D. (2012). Astronomy. How oblate is the Sun? Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6102), 1611–1612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Govers, F., & Angenent, G. C. (2010). Plant science. Fertility goddesses as Trojan horses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6006), 922–923.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, J., Theodoris, C., & Davidson, E. H. (2007). A gene regulatory network subcircuit drives a dynamic pattern of gene expression. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5851), 794–797.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Terabe, K., Hasegawa, T., Nakayama, T., & Aono, M. (2005). Quantized conductance atomic switch. Nature, 433(7021), 47–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Bosse, J. G. (2002). Signaling in Telecommunication Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Papadrakakis, M., Stefanou, G., & Papadopoulos, V. (Eds.). (2011). Computational Methods in Stochastic Dynamics (Vol. 22). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Coates, A. J., Wahlund, J.-E., Ågren, K., Edberg, N., Cui, J., Wellbrock, A., & Szego, K. (2012). Recent Results from Titan’s Ionosphere. In K. Szego (Ed.), The Plasma Environment of Venus, Mars, and Titan (pp. 85–111). Springer US.

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

Luntz, S. (2016, July 6). How Beetles Operate Penises Longer Than Their Bodies. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-beetles-operate-penises-longer-than-their-bodies/

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. (1998). Federal Research: Information on the Advanced Technology Program’s 1997 Award Selection (T-RCED-98-92). 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

Thornsberry, J. L. (2010). Freshman transition and its effectiveness on student success as measured by improved attendance, improved grades, decreased discipline referrals, and decreased dropout rate [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Greenhouse, L. (2014, June 25). The Justices Have Cellphones, Too. New York Times, A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gough, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gough, 2012; Govers & Angenent, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Govers & Angenent, 2010)
Three authors: (Smith et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Terabe et al., 2005)

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

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