How to format your references using the Gender and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gender and 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

Jan, Eric. 2015. “Molecular Biology: Signals across Domains of Life.” Nature 519 (7541): 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raymo, Maureen E., and Jerry X. Mitrovica. 2012. “Collapse of Polar Ice Sheets during the Stage 11 Interglacial.” Nature 483 (7390): 453–456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burrone, Juan, Michael O’Byrne, and Venkatesh N. Murthy. 2002. “Multiple Forms of Synaptic Plasticity Triggered by Selective Suppression of Activity in Individual Neurons.” Nature 420 (6914): 414–418.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Xinyu, Jiaqian Qin, Yanan Xue, Pengfei Yu, Bing Zhang, Limin Wang, and Riping Liu. 2014. “Effect of Aspect Ratio and Surface Defects on the Photocatalytic Activity of ZnO Nanorods.” Scientific Reports 4 (April): 4596.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 2007. Guidelines for Safe and Reliable Instrumented Protective Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Park, James J. (jong Hyuk), Shu-Ching Chen, Joon-Min Gil, and Neil Y. Yen, eds. 2014. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Vol. 308. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, Margaret, Hak Ping Tam, and Tsung-Hau Jen. 2016. “Test Administration and Data Preparation.” In Educational Measurement for Applied Researchers: Theory into Practice, edited by Hak Ping Tam and Tsung-Hau Jen, 59–72. Singapore: 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 Gender and Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “No Smoke Without Fire – The Link Between Smoking And Mental Health.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-smoke-without-fire-link-between-smoking-and-mental-health/.

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. 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: A Testing Guide (Supersedes AIMD-10.1.21). AIMD-10.1.21. 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

Frederick, Kira. 2009. “Wool and Water.” Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Williams, John. 2017. “Boom Time in Nollywood.” New York Times, October 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jan 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jan 2015; Raymo and Mitrovica 2012).

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

Two authors: (Raymo and Mitrovica 2012)
Three authors: (Burrone, O’Byrne, and Murthy 2002)
4 or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gender and Education
Abbreviation	Gend. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0954-0253
ISSN (online)	1360-0516
Scope	Education Gender Studies