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:

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

Nadeem M (2014) Unconditionally secure commitment in position-based quantum cryptography. Sci Rep 4:6774

A journal article with 2 authors

Tanno K-I, Willcox G (2006) How fast was wild wheat domesticated? Science 311:1886

A journal article with 3 authors

Kleckner N, Zickler D, Witz G (2013) Molecular biology. Chromosome capture brings it all together. Science 342:940–941

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kornmann B, Currie E, Collins SR, et al (2009) An ER-mitochondria tethering complex revealed by a synthetic biology screen. Science 325:477–481

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harte L (2013) Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Archer MS (ed) (2013) Social Morphogenesis. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Senk SL, Tatto MT, Reckase M, et al (2014) Knowledge of Future Primary Teachers for Teaching Mathematics: An International Comparative Study. In: Blömeke S, Hsieh F-J, Kaiser G, Schmidt WH (eds) International Perspectives on Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn: TEDS-M Results. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–90

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

Luntz S (2017) The Amazon Rainforest Is Dominated By Domesticated Trees. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-amazon-rainforest-is-dominated-by-domesticated-trees/. 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 (1995) NASA’s Earth Observing System: Estimated Funding Requirements. 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

Crump S (2015) The efficacy of an academic behavior assessment tool for the functional behavior assessment process. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Dargis M (2017) Amy Adams. New York Times M2169

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadeem 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Tanno and Willcox 2006; Nadeem 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tanno and Willcox 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kornmann et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Educational Integrity
Abbreviation	Int. J. Educ. Integr.
ISSN (online)	1833-2595
Scope