How to format your references using the Education Sciences citation style

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

Triendl, R. Japan’s Cloning Ban Will Allow Stem Cell Experiments. Nature 2000, 404, 321.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trinkle-Mulcahy, L.; Lamond, A.I. Toward a High-Resolution View of Nuclear Dynamics. Science 2007, 318, 1402–1407.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ogata, H.; Nishikawa, K.; Lubitz, W. Hydrogens Detected by Subatomic Resolution Protein Crystallography in a [NiFe] Hydrogenase. Nature 2015, 520, 571–574.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choi, T.; Lee, S.; Choi, Y.J.; Kiryukhin, V.; Cheong, S.-W. Switchable Ferroelectric Diode and Photovoltaic Effect in BiFeO3. Science 2009, 324, 63–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mory, M. Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineering; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013; ISBN 9781118617175.

An edited book

Directed Metallation; Chatani, N., Ed.; Topics in Organometallic Chemistry; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; Vol. 24; ISBN 9783540758082.

A chapter in an edited book

Jacobs, J.W.; Richter, J.E. Role of H2RA and Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy in Treating Reflux Disease. In Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease; Vaezi, M.F., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 71–91 ISBN 9783319195230.

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 Education Sciences.

Blog post

Davis, J. Bizarre-Looking Hairy Slug Fossil May Be The Ancestor To Snails, Clams, And Octopuses (accessed on 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 Aviation Assistance: Information on Payments Made Under the Disaster Relief and Insurance Reimbursement Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2003;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Jha, J.S. [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide and Electrophilic Reaction of Ethyl Atropate. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL, 2013.

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

Feeney, K. Cross-Cultural Confections. New York Times 2007, NJ6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Education Sciences
Abbreviation	Educ. Sci. (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2227-7102
Scope