How to format your references using the Early Childhood Education Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Early Childhood Education 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

Harvey, J. (2001). The natural economy. Nature, 413(6855), 463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turner, S. L., & Ray, A. (2009). Modification of CO2 avoidance behaviour in Drosophila by inhibitory odorants. Nature, 461(7261), 277–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson, G. E., Fernald, R. D., & Clayton, D. F. (2008). Genes and social behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 896–900.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Taylor, A. F., Tinsley, M. R., Wang, F., Huang, Z., & Showalter, K. (2009). Dynamical quorum sensing and synchronization in large populations of chemical oscillators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914), 614–617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinstein, S. (2009). The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yarchoan, R. (Ed.). (2014). Cancers in People with HIV and AIDS: Progress and Challenges. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zanin, M., Menasalvas, E., Boccaletti, S., & Sousa, P. A. (2014). Analysis of Complex Data by Means of Complex Networks. In L. M. Camarinha-Matos, N. S. Barrento, & R. Mendonça (Eds.), Technological Innovation for Collective Awareness Systems: 5th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2014, Costa de Caparica, Portugal, April 7-9, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 39–46). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Early Childhood Education Journal.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, July 12). New Dwarf Planet Discovered At The Edge Of The Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1996). Analysis of “Florida’s Fair Share” (No. HEHS-96-168R). 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

Lamanna, S. G. (2012). Colombian Spanish in North Carolina: The role of language and dialect contact in the formation of a new variety of U.S. Spanish (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Qiu, L. (2017, February 24). After Denouncing ‘Fake News,’ a Catalog of Falsehoods. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harvey 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Harvey 2001; Turner and Ray 2009).

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

Two authors: (Turner and Ray 2009)
Three or more authors: (Taylor et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Early Childhood Education Journal
Abbreviation	Early Child. Educ. J.
ISSN (print)	1082-3301
ISSN (online)	1573-1707
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education