How to format your references using the International Journal for Academic Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Academic Development. 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

Koen, D. (2004). Nuts and bolts. Reference points. Nature, 428(6978), 104.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lorenz, M. C., & Fink, G. R. (2001). The glyoxylate cycle is required for fungal virulence. Nature, 412(6842), 83–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deller, A. T., Bailes, M., & Tingay, S. J. (2009). Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1327–1329.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Moon, S., Han, D., Kim, Y., Jin, J., Ho, W.-K., & Kim, Y. (2014). Interactome analysis of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)-α1 and -β1 in INS-1 pancreatic beta-cells by affinity purification-mass spectrometry. Scientific Reports, 4, 4376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimball, R., & Ross, M. (2015). The Kimball Group Reader. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bol, G., Rachev, S. T., & Würth, R. (Eds.). (2009). Risk Assessment: Decisions in Banking and Finance. Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Dowbor, L. (2015). Economic Democracy: Meeting Some Management Challenges: Changing Scenarios in Brazil. In F. Mancebo & I. Sachs (Eds.), Transitions to Sustainability (pp. 39–53). 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 International Journal for Academic Development.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 26). Scientists Turn Blood Cells Into Neurons. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-turn-blood-cells-neurons/

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. (1979). Science Indicators: Improvements Needed in Design, Construction, and Interpretation (PAD-79-35). 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

Julian, A. (2017). Guided Autobiography Themes for Older Adult United States War Veterans [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, January 26). Musk Has Trump’s Ear, and Market Takes Note. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Koen, 2004; Lorenz & Fink, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lorenz & Fink, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Moon et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Academic Development
ISSN (print)	1360-144X
ISSN (online)	1470-1324
Scope	Education