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

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

Knight, J. 2001. “Senators Call for Biodefence Boost.” Nature 413 (6855): 441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iijima, Norifumi, and Akiko Iwasaki. 2014. “T Cell Memory. A Local Macrophage Chemokine Network Sustains Protective Tissue-Resident Memory CD4 T Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6205): 93–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai, T., D. D. Pollard, and H. Gao. 2000. “Explanation for Fracture Spacing in Layered Materials.” Nature 403 (6771): 753–756.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Parkes, R. John, Gordon Webster, Barry A. Cragg, Andrew J. Weightman, Carole J. Newberry, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jens Kallmeyer, Bo B. Jørgensen, Ivano W. Aiello, and John C. Fry. 2005. “Deep Sub-Seafloor Prokaryotes Stimulated at Interfaces over Geological Time.” Nature 436 (7049): 390–394.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nikrityuk, Petr A. 2011. Computational Thermo-Fluid Dynamics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Yang, Yuhang, and Maode Ma, eds. 2013. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 3. Vol. 225. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Skowron, Piotr, and Krzysztof Rzadca. 2014. “Fair Share Is Not Enough: Measuring Fairness in Scheduling with Cooperative Game Theory.” In Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 10th International Conference, PPAM 2013, Warsaw, Poland, September 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, edited by Roman Wyrzykowski, Jack Dongarra, Konrad Karczewski, and Jerzy Waśniewski, 38–48. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 European Early Childhood Education Research Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2016. “Goodbye, Rosetta: World Bids Farewell As Spacecraft Ends Mission With Comet Impact.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/goodbye-rosetta-world-bids-farewell-as-spacecraft-ends-mission-with-comet-impact/.

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. 1994. Air Traffic Control: Observations on Proposed Corporation. T-RCED-94-210. 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

Davis, Kevin. 2010. “Manifesting Archetypal Energy through Music.” Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. 2002. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Orthodox Church Berates Vatican.” New York Times, August 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2001; Iijima and Iwasaki 2014).

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

Two authors: (Iijima and Iwasaki 2014)
Three authors: (Bai, Pollard, and Gao 2000)
4 or more authors: (Parkes et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Early Child. Educ. Res. J.
ISSN (print)	1350-293X
ISSN (online)	1752-1807
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education