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

Wynne, Clive D. L. 2004. “Animal Behaviour: Fair Refusal by Capuchin Monkeys.” Nature 428 (6979): 140; discussion 140.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pollard, David, and Robert M. DeConto. 2009. “Modelling West Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth and Collapse through the Past Five Million Years.” Nature 458 (7236): 329–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mohn, Fabio, Dominik Handler, and Julius Brennecke. 2015. “Noncoding RNA. PiRNA-Guided Slicing Specifies Transcripts for Zucchini-Dependent, Phased PiRNA Biogenesis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6236): 812–817.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Müller, M. M., P. Malinowski, T. Gruber, and S. A. Hillyard. 2003. “Sustained Division of the Attentional Spotlight.” Nature 424 (6946): 309–312.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, James T. 1999. Methods of Geometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chiu, Wen-Ta, Yung-Hsiao Chiang, Ming-Chien Kao, Ching-Chang Hung, Shinn-Zong Lin, Han-Jung Chen, Simon F. T. Tang, and Barry J. Hoffer, eds. 2008. Reconstructive Neurosurgery. Vol. 101. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, Guoliang, Qingling Zhang, and Xinngang Yan. 2015. “$$H_\infty $$ Control.” In Analysis and Design of Singular Markovian Jump Systems, edited by Qingling Zhang and Xinggang Yan, 111–159. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “This Father’s Day, Be Grateful Your Dad Is A Human.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/father-s-day-be-grateful-your-dad-human/.

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. 1982. Can the Federal Communications Commission Successfully Implement Its Computer II Decision? CED-82-38. 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

Koner, Karen Michelle. 2012. “The Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Wind Ensemble Error Detection Skills among Instrumental Music Educators.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2017. “Film Series.” New York Times, August 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wynne 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Wynne 2004; Pollard and DeConto 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pollard and DeConto 2009)
Three authors: (Mohn, Handler, and Brennecke 2015)
4 or more authors: (Müller et al. 2003)

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