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

Deweerdt, Sarah. 2011. “Prevention: Activity Is the Best Medicine.” Nature 475 (7355): S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, Martin R., and Jean-Bernard Caron. 2010. “Primitive Soft-Bodied Cephalopods from the Cambrian.” Nature 465 (7297): 469–472.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakada, Daisuke, Thomas L. Saunders, and Sean J. Morrison. 2010. “Lkb1 Regulates Cell Cycle and Energy Metabolism in Haematopoietic Stem Cells.” Nature 468 (7324): 653–658.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rowe, T., R. A. Ketcham, C. Denison, M. Colbert, X. Xu, and P. J. Currie. 2001. “Forensic Palaeontology: The Archaeoraptor Forgery.” Nature 410 (6828): 539–540.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summerhayes, Stuart D. 2016. CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Díez Muiño, Ricardo, and Heriberto Fabio Busnengo, eds. 2013. Dynamics of Gas-Surface Interactions: Atomic-Level Understanding of Scattering Processes at Surfaces. Vol. 50. Springer Series in Surface Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Edge, Charles, William Barker, Beau Hunter, and Gene Sullivan. 2010. “Reviewing Logs and Monitoring.” In Enterprise Mac Security: Mac OS X Snow Leopard, edited by William Barker, Beau Hunter, and Gene Sullivan, 113–135. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. “Asteroid Impact May Have Intensified Volcanic Eruptions And Wiped Out The Dinosaurs.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/asteroid-impact-may-have-intensified-volcanoes-and-wiped-out-dinosaurs/.

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. 2011. International School Feeding: USDA’s Oversight of the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program Needs Improvement. GAO-11-544. 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

Marmolejo, Rosalia. 2013. “Drop-in Center for Homeless Veteran Families: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Akbar, Kaveh. 2017. “Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler.” New York Times, October 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Deweerdt 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Deweerdt 2011; Smith and Caron 2010).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Caron 2010)
Three authors: (Nakada, Saunders, and Morrison 2010)
4 or more authors: (Rowe et al. 2001)

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