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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Firestein, S. 2001. “How the Olfactory System Makes Sense of Scents.” Nature 413 (6852): 211–218.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin, Yuan, and Zhongzhi Zhang. 2014. “Controlling the Efficiency of Trapping in a Scale-Free Small-World Network.” Scientific Reports 4 (September 2014): 6274.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hembacher, Stefan, Franz J. Giessibl, and Jochen Mannhart. 2004. “Force Microscopy with Light-Atom Probes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5682): 380–383.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Katra, Itzhak, Luba Arotsker, Helena Krasnov, Arieh Zaritsky, Ariel Kushmaro, and Eitan Ben-Dov. 2014. “Richness and Diversity in Dust Stormborne Biomes at the Southeast Mediterranean.” Scientific Reports 4 (June 2014): 5265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kim, Dae Mann. 2015. Introductory Quantum Mechanics for Applied Nanotechnology. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Alexandre, Alberto, Albino Bricolo, and Hanno Millesi, eds. 2005. Advanced Peripheral Nerve Surgery and Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery. Vol. 97. Acta Neurochirurgica. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Abracham, Ajith. 2011. “Quo Vadis Hybrid Intelligent Systems: New Trends and Approaches.” In Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 6th International Conference, HAIS 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, edited by Emilio Corchado, Marek Kurzyński, and Michał Woźniak, 30–30. 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “Psychotextiles Could Be Next Big Thing In Fabrics.” IFLScience, IFLScience, September 13. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychotextiles-could-be-next-big-thing-in-fabrics/.

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. 2016. Local Media Advertising: FCC Should Take Action to Ensure Television Stations Publicly File Advertising Agreements. GAO-16-349. 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

Jha, Jay Shankar. 2013. “[3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide and Electrophilic Reaction of Ethyl Atropate.” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Vecsey, George. 2011. “Once a Fill-In Keeper, Now a Winning Scorer.” New York Times, October 31, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Firestein 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Firestein 2001; Lin and Zhang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lin and Zhang 2014)
Three authors: (Hembacher, Giessibl, and Mannhart 2004)
4 or more authors: (Katra et al. 2014)

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