How to format your references using the Educational Media International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Educational Media International. 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

Huber, J. A. (2015). MICROBIAL ECOLOGY. Making methane down deep. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6246), 376–377.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matzke, M. A., & Matzke, A. J. (2000). Cloning problems don’t surprise plant biologists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5475), 2318b.

A journal article with 3 authors

Culley, A. I., Lang, A. S., & Suttle, C. A. (2003). High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea. Nature, 424(6952), 1054–1057.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mayer, W., Niveleau, A., Walter, J., Fundele, R., & Haaf, T. (2000). Demethylation of the zygotic paternal genome. Nature, 403(6769), 501–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, S. R., Gregory, W. M., Twelves, C., & Brown, J. (2014). A Practical Guide to Designing Phase II Trials in Oncology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tan, Y., & Shi, Y. (Eds.). (2016). Data Mining and Big Data: First International Conference, DMBD 2016, Bali, Indonesia, June 25-30, 2016. Proceedings (Vol. 9714). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Altland, A., & Egger, R. (2012). Nonequilibrium Transport and Dephasing in Coulomb-Blockaded Quantum Dots. In D. C. Cabra, A. Honecker, & P. Pujol (Eds.), Modern Theories of Many-Particle Systems in Condensed Matter Physics (pp. 215–244). 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 Educational Media International.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2017, January 9). Why Do We Get Allergies? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-we-get-allergies/

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. (2004). Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Ensure Better Coordination When Approving Air Traffic Control Systems (GAO-05-11). 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

Alalshaikh, S. A. (2017). Leadership Styles in Saudi Arabian Universities: Comparison Based on Educational Background [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Qiu, L. (2017, August 16). Does Amazon Pay Tax? Yes. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Huber, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Huber, 2015; Matzke & Matzke, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Matzke & Matzke, 2000)
Three authors: (Culley et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Mayer et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Media International
Abbreviation	EMI Educ. Media Int.
ISSN (print)	0952-3987
ISSN (online)	1469-5790
Scope