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

Bunk, S. (2002). Tearing down the barriers. Nature, 416(6880), 4–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucht, M., & Rosskopf, D. (2008). Comment on “Genetically determined differences in learning from errors.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5886), 200; author reply 200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, A. R., Libby, S. J., & Fang, F. C. (2008). A nitric oxide-inducible lactate dehydrogenase enables Staphylococcus aureus to resist innate immunity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5870), 1672–1676.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Aeschlimann, M., Bauer, M., Bayer, D., Brixner, T., García de Abajo, F. J., Pfeiffer, W., Rohmer, M., Spindler, C., & Steeb, F. (2007). Adaptive subwavelength control of nano-optical fields. Nature, 446(7133), 301–304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosenberger, W. R. (2005). Risk-Adjusted Lending Conditions. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Abawajy, J. H., Mukherjea, S., Thampi, S. M., & Ruiz-Martínez, A. (Eds.). (2015). Security in Computing and Communications: Third International Symposium, SSCC 2015, Kochi, India, August 10-13, 2015. Proceedings (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 536). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ganzha, E. I. (2014). Intertwining Laplace Transformations of Linear Partial Differential Equations. In M. Barkatou, T. Cluzeau, G. Regensburger, & M. Rosenkranz (Eds.), Algebraic and Algorithmic Aspects of Differential and Integral Operators: 5th International Meeting, AADIOS 2012, Held at the Applications of Computer Algebra Conference, ACA 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 25-28, 2012, Selected and Invited Papers (pp. 96–115). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, August 5). Top Secret Cold War Nuclear Missile Base Unearthed By Climate Change. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/top-secret-cold-war-nuclear-missile-base-unearthed-by-climate-change/

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). Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments (AA-98-29(3)). 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

Webb, C. T. (2009). “The mirroring that binds into freedom”: Stevens, Jeffers, Heidegger and the inhuman [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, M. (2000, March 30). An Update for the Innards of the Net. New York Times, G10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunk, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bunk, 2002; Lucht & Rosskopf, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lucht & Rosskopf, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Aeschlimann et al., 2007)

About the journal

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