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

Saibil, Helen R. 2013. “Biochemistry. Machinery to Reverse Irreversible Aggregates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6123): 1040–1041.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eberl, Gérard, and Dan R. Littman. 2004. “Thymic Origin of Intestinal Alphabeta T Cells Revealed by Fate Mapping of RORgammat+ Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5681): 248–251.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S-K, T. C. Badea, and S. Hattar. 2011. “Photoentrainment and Pupillary Light Reflex Are Mediated by Distinct Populations of IpRGCs.” Nature 476 (7358): 92–95.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lata, Suman, Guy Schoehn, Ankur Jain, Ricardo Pires, Jacob Piehler, Heinrich G. Gottlinger, and Winfried Weissenhorn. 2008. “Helical Structures of ESCRT-III Are Disassembled by VPS4.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5894): 1354–1357.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen, Richard N. 2010. Practical Relativity. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pfeiffer, Silvia. 2015. Beginning HTML5 Media: Make the Most of the New Video and Audio Standards for the Web. Edited by Tom Green. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Specia, Lucia. 2010. “Translating from Complex to Simplified Sentences.” In Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 9th International Conference, PROPOR 2010, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, April 27-30, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, António Branco, Aldebaro Klautau, Renata Vieira, and Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima, 30–39. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “I’m Stuck Like Glue: Why I Love Magnets and You Should Too.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/i-m-stuck-glue-why-i-love-magnets-and-you-should-too/.

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. 2005. Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weaknesses. GAO-05-465T. 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

Lancelin, Davita B. 2017. “A Phenomenological Case Study of Teacher Experiences with and Understanding of Instruction Aligned to the CCSS, and Their Role in Advancing Equal Educational Opportunities for Students.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Johnson, George. 2016. “Recognizing the Artifice in Artificial Intelligence.” New York Times, April 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Saibil 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Saibil 2013; Eberl and Littman 2004).

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

Two authors: (Eberl and Littman 2004)
Three authors: (Chen, Badea, and Hattar 2011)
4 or more authors: (Lata et al. 2008)

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