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

Manchester, R. N. 2004. “Observational Properties of Pulsars.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5670): 542–546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu, Esther M., and Lennox L. Cowie. 2006. “High-Redshift Galaxy Populations.” Nature 440 (7088): 1145–1150.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakellariou, D., G. Le Goff, and J-F Jacquinot. 2007. “High-Resolution, High-Sensitivity NMR of Nanolitre Anisotropic Samples by Coil Spinning.” Nature 447 (7145): 694–697.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yao, Y., W. L. Lu, B. Xu, C. B. Li, C. P. Lin, D. Waxman, and J. F. Feng. 2013. “The Increase of the Functional Entropy of the Human Brain with Age.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeRosa, David F. 2013. Foreign Exchange Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Archibald, Margaret, Vasco Brattka, Valentin Goranko, and Benedikt Löwe, eds. 2009. Infinity in Logic and Computation: International Conference, ILC 2007, Cape Town, South Africa, November 3-5, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 5489. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Amato, Anthony. 2008. “On the Legitimacy of International Institutions.” In Legitimacy in International Law, edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum and Volker Röben, 83–92. Beiträge Zum Ausländischen Öffentlichen Recht Und Völkerrecht. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Cell-Like Structure Found in Martian Meteorite.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cell-structure-found-martian-meteorite/.

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. 2010. Organizational Transformation: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Enterprise Architecture Management (Version 2.0) (Supersedes GAO-03-584G). GAO-10-846G. 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

Learn, David T. 2012. “Differentiating Instruction on the Basis of Cognitive Tools: A Case Study of Honors and Mainstream Middle School Classes.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Lovell, Joel. 2013. “The World, Still Spinning.” New York Times, May 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manchester 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Manchester 2004; Hu and Cowie 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hu and Cowie 2006)
Three authors: (Sakellariou, Le Goff, and Jacquinot 2007)
4 or more authors: (Yao 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