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

Rotblat, J. 2000. “Mark Oliphant (1901-2000).” Nature 407 (6803): 468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kobayashi, Takehiko, and Austen R. D. Ganley. 2005. “Recombination Regulation by Transcription-Induced Cohesin Dissociation in RDNA Repeats.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5740): 1581–1584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, Tong, Ting Wang, and Joe G. N. Garcia. 2014. “Expression of Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase-Influenced Genes Predicts Recurrence-Free Survival in Lung and Breast Cancers.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6107.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pu, Jiangbo, Hui Gong, Xiangning Li, and Qingming Luo. 2013. “Developing Neuronal Networks: Self-Organized Criticality Predicts the Future.” Scientific Reports 3 (January): 1081.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summers, Nancy. 2010. Managing Social Service Staff for Excellence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Peinke, Joachim, Peter Schaumann, and Stephan Barth, eds. 2007. Wind Energy: Proceedings of the Euromech Colloquium. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Silvester, Alan K., Michael J. Jacobson, and Hugh C. Williams. 2013. “Shorter Compact Representations in Real Quadratic Fields.” In Number Theory and Cryptography: Papers in Honor of Johannes Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, edited by Marc Fischlin and Stefan Katzenbeisser, 50–72. 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 Journal of Teacher Education.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. “Amazon Rainforest Could Be Set For An Intense Wildfire Season Driven By El Niño.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/amazon-rainforest-could-be-set-for-an-intense-wildfire-season-driven-by-el-nio/.

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. 1981. Students Receiving Federal Aid Are Not Making Satisfactory Academic Progress: Tougher Standards Are Needed. HRD-82-15. 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

Richardson, Vicki Michele. 2013. “In Vitro Thyroid Hormone Metabolism: Effects of Nuclear Receptor Activation on the Metabolic Profiles of Thyroxine in Rat and Human Hepatocytes.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Koblin, John. 2017. “Tech Firms Make Push Toward TV.” New York Times, August 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rotblat 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rotblat 2000; Kobayashi and Ganley 2005).

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

Two authors: (Kobayashi and Ganley 2005)
Three authors: (Zhou, Wang, and Garcia 2014)
4 or more authors: (Pu et al. 2013)

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