How to format your references using the International Journal for Educational Integrity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Educational Integrity. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Ingebritsen SE (2012) Geochemistry. Modeling the formation of porphyry-copper ores. Science 338:1551–1552
A journal article with 2 authors
Wennberg PO, Dabdub D (2008) Atmospheric chemistry. Rethinking ozone production. Science 319:1624–1625
A journal article with 3 authors
Wu B, Parquette JR, RajanBabu TV (2009) Regiodivergent ring opening of chiral aziridines. Science 326:1662
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Thompson RB, Ginzburg VV, Matsen MW, Balazs AC (2001) Predicting the mesophases of copolymer-nanoparticle composites. Science 292:2469–2472

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Tattar PN, Ramaiah S, Manjunath BG (2016) A Course in Statistics With R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
Harel D (2008) Algoritmi: Lo spirito dell’informatica. Springer, Milano
A chapter in an edited book
Sanfelice Bazanella A, Campestrini L, Eckhard D (2012) Iterative Optimization. In: Campestrini L, Eckhard D (eds) Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 69–88

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 Educational Integrity.

Blog post
Andrew E (2013) Computer Program Reconstructed Dinosaur Locomotion. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1993) Direct Student Loan Savings. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Woodland RJ (2010) Investigating the role of the mid-Atlantic inner continental shelf as a marine finfish nursery: A comparative approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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
Clarke J (2017) Respites From Solitude of an Ocean Voyage. New York Times B8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ingebritsen 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Wennberg and Dabdub 2008; Ingebritsen 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Wennberg and Dabdub 2008)
  • Three or more authors: (Thompson et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal for Educational Integrity
AbbreviationInt. J. Educ. Integr.
ISSN (online)1833-2595
Scope

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