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

Tu, Y. 2000. “How Robust Is the Internet?” Nature 406 (6794): 353–354.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baker, Rosanna P., and Siniša Urban. 2015. “Cytosolic Extensions Directly Regulate a Rhomboid Protease by Modulating Substrate Gating.” Nature 523 (7558): 101–105.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eisenberger, Naomi I., Matthew D. Lieberman, and Kipling D. Williams. 2003. “Does Rejection Hurt? An FMRI Study of Social Exclusion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5643): 290–292.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Galy, V., J. C. Olivo-Marin, H. Scherthan, V. Doye, N. Rascalou, and U. Nehrbass. 2000. “Nuclear Pore Complexes in the Organization of Silent Telomeric Chromatin.” Nature 403 (6765): 108–112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grimes, Roger A. 2017. Hacking the Hacker. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Athanas, Peter, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, and Nicolas Sklavos, eds. 2013. Embedded Systems Design with FPGAs. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Steiger, Michael, A. Elena Charola, and Katja Sterflinger. 2011. “Weathering and Deterioration.” In Stone in Architecture: Properties, Durability, edited by Siegfried Siegesmund and Rolf Snethlage, 227–316. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Rising Seas Could Drown Turtle Eggs: New Research.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rising-seas-could-drown-turtle-eggs-new-research/.

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. 1980. Undergraduate Helicopter Pilot Training: Consolidation Could Yield Significant Savings. FPCD-80-37. 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

Anderson, Mindi S. 2017. “Integrating Emergency Medical Services Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Gordon, Michael R. 2012. “Iran’s Master Of Iraq Chaos Still Vexes U.S.” New York Times, October 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tu 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Tu 2000; Baker and Urban 2015).

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

Two authors: (Baker and Urban 2015)
Three authors: (Eisenberger, Lieberman, and Williams 2003)
4 or more authors: (Galy et al. 2000)

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