How to format your references using the Innovative Higher Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Innovative Higher 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Cardon, L. R. (2006). Genetics. Delivering new disease genes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5804), 1403–1405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nilsson, J., & Payne, D. N. (2011). Physics. High-power fiber lasers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6032), 921–922.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexandre, C., Baena-Lopez, A., & Vincent, J.-P. (2014). Patterning and growth control by membrane-tethered Wingless. Nature, 505(7482), 180–185.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, C. P., Liu, X. J., Ohnuma, I., Kainuma, R., & Ishida, K. (2002). Formation of immiscible alloy powders with egg-type microstructure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5583), 990–993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohan, N. (2014). Advanced Electric Drives. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Azar, A. T., & Vaidyanathan, S. (Eds.). (2016). Advances in Chaos Theory and Intelligent Control (Vol. 337). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, S. W., & Vleugels, R. A. (2014). Livedo Reticularis. In M. Matucci-Cerinic, D. Furst, & D. Fiorentino (Eds.), Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease (pp. 29–36). New York, NY: 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 Innovative Higher Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, April 2). Astronaut Hearts Become Spherical in Space. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/astronaut-hearts-become-spherical-space/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1994). Immigrant Education: Federal Funding Has Not Kept Pace With Student Increases (No. T-HEHS-94-146). 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

DeLutis-Eichenberger, A. N. (2010). El proceso semiótico de un héroe decimonónico: Un estudio en torno a los “textos-tumbas” de Andrés Bello (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hodara, S. (2015, January 11). Faces of a Small Southern Town. New York Times, p. WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cardon 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cardon 2006; Nilsson and Payne 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nilsson and Payne 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Innovative Higher Education
Abbreviation	Innov. High. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0742-5627
ISSN (online)	1573-1758
Scope	Education