How to format your references using the European Journal of Teacher Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Teacher Education. 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

Ledford, Heidi. 2007. “Patent Examiners Call in the Jury.” Nature 448 (7151): 239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marti, Kurt, and John Kerridge. 2010. “Planetary Science. Nitrogen in the Solar System.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5982): 1112–1113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weisbuch, Max, Kristin Pauker, and Nalini Ambady. 2009. “The Subtle Transmission of Race Bias via Televised Nonverbal Behavior.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5960): 1711–1714.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Barbeau, K., E. L. Rue, K. W. Bruland, and A. Butler. 2001. “Photochemical Cycling of Iron in the Surface Ocean Mediated by Microbial Iron(III)-Binding Ligands.” Nature 413 (6854): 409–413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lado, Ernesto Penas. 2016. The Common Fisheries Policy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Qu, John J., Wei Gao, Menas Kafatos, Robert E. Murphy, and Vincent V. Salomonson, eds. 2006. Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing: Vol. 2: Data, Computational Processing, and Tools. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jackman, Ann L., Gerrit Jansen, and Matthew Ng. 2011. “Folate Receptor Targeted Thymidylate Synthase Inhibitors.” In Targeted Drug Strategies for Cancer and Inflammation, edited by Ann L. Jackman and Christopher P. Leamon, 93–117. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Journal of Teacher Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “Lost In Translation: Five Common English Phrases You May Be Using Incorrectly.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1996. Weather Forecasting: New Processing System Faces Uncertainties and Risks. T-AIMD-96-47. 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

Carroll, William E. 2017. “Leadership and Emotional Intelligence: Ability-Based and Mixed Models of Emotional Intelligence as Predictors of Leadership Performance across Manager Levels.” 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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “A Measure Of Progress And Limits For Women.” New York Times, August 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ledford 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ledford 2007; Marti and Kerridge 2010).

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

Two authors: (Marti and Kerridge 2010)
Three authors: (Weisbuch, Pauker, and Ambady 2009)
4 or more authors: (Barbeau et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Teacher Education
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Teach. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0261-9768
ISSN (online)	1469-5928
Scope	Education