How to format your references using the Innovations in Education and Teaching International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 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

O’Rahilly, S. (2009). Human genetics illuminates the paths to metabolic disease. Nature, 462(7271), 307–314.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., & Bradford, M. (2008). 2008 Visualization Challenge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5897), 1767.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siu, Z. B., Jalil, M. B. A., & Tan, S. G. (2014). Topological state transport in topological insulators under the influence of hexagonal warping and exchange coupling to in-plane magnetizations. Scientific Reports, 4, 5062.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Férey, G., Mellot-Draznieks, C., Serre, C., Millange, F., Dutour, J., Surblé, S., & Margiolaki, I. (2005). A chromium terephthalate-based solid with unusually large pore volumes and surface area. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5743), 2040–2042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahlemeyer-Stubbe, A., & Coleman, S. (2014). A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Re, L. del, Allgöwer, F., Glielmo, L., Guardiola, C., & Kolmanovsky, I. (Eds.). (2010). Automotive Model Predictive Control: Models, Methods and Applications (Vol. 402). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oxley, J. C. (2008). What’s Special About Liquid Explosives? In H. Schubert & A. Kuznetsov (Eds.), Detection of Liquid Explosives and Flammable Agents in Connection with Terrorism (pp. 27–38). Springer Netherlands.

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 Innovations in Education and Teaching International.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, July 20). The Return Of Big Cats Could Help Save Lives On The Road. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-return-of-big-cats-could-help-save-lives-on-the-road/

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. (1995). NSF’s Academic Facilities Program (RCED-95-153R). 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

Sripinit, T. (2012). How Much Do We Understand About Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy? [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Harris, E. A. (2017, April 23). Accused of Sexual Abuse, Ousted And On to the Next Teaching Job. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Rahilly, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Nesbit & Bradford, 2008; O’Rahilly, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit & Bradford, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Férey et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Innovations in Education and Teaching International
Abbreviation	Innov. Educ. Teach. Int.
ISSN (print)	1470-3297
ISSN (online)	1470-3300
Scope	Education