How to format your references using the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 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

Reichhardt, Tony. 2005. “Pumping up the Volume.” Nature 436 (7049): 326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, Gustavo J., and Anjana Rao. 2012. “Immunology. Cooperative Transcription Factor Complexes in Control.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6109): 891–892.

A journal article with 3 authors

Soares, Lorena, Michael Parisi, and Nancy M. Bonini. 2014. “Axon Injury and Regeneration in the Adult Drosophila.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6199.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bhattacharjee, Pritha, Somnath Paul, Mayukh Banerjee, Deblina Patra, Priyam Banerjee, Nanda Ghoshal, Arun Bandyopadhyay, and Ashok K. Giri. 2013. “Functional Compensation of Glutathione S-Transferase M1 (GSTM1) Null by Another GST Superfamily Member, GSTM2.” Scientific Reports 3: 2704.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abutarbush, Sameeh M. 2015. Illustrated Guide to Equine Diseases. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wichert, Reiner, and Helmut Klausing, eds. 2016. Ambient Assisted Living: 8. AAL-Kongress 2015,Frankfurt/M, April 29-30. April, 2015. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Izmailov, Alexey F., and Mikhail V. Solodov. 2014. “Constrained Optimization: Local Methods.” In Newton-Type Methods for Optimization and Variational Problems, edited by Mikhail V. Solodov, 205–303. Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “There’s A ‘Blue Moon’ This Friday - But What Does That Mean?” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2005. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Education Should Provide Additional Guidance to Help States Smoothly Transition Children to Preschool. GAO-06-26. 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

Sontag, Michael. 2006. “Emotion and the Labeling Process.” Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Eldred, Sheila M., and John Eligon. 2016. “Doctor Saw Prince a Day Before His Death.” New York Times, May 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Reichhardt 2005; Martinez and Rao 2012).

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

Two authors: (Martinez and Rao 2012)
Three authors: (Soares, Parisi, and Bonini 2014)
4 or more authors: (Bhattacharjee et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biling. Educ. Biling.
ISSN (print)	1367-0050
ISSN (online)	1747-7522
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Linguistics and Language