How to format your references using the International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy citation style

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

Westall, F. (2009). Geochemistry. Life on an anaerobic planet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5913), 471–472.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bialek, W., & Botstein, D. (2004). Introductory science and mathematics education for 21st-Century biologists. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5659), 788–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eccleston, A., Cesari, F., & Skipper, M. (2013). Transcription and epigenetics. Nature, 502(7472), 461.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Solanki, K., Grover, N., Downs, P., Paskaleva, E. E., Mehta, K. K., Lee, L., et al. (2013). Enzyme-based listericidal nanocomposites. Scientific reports, 3, 1584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ansons, A. M., & Davis, H. (2008). Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

McEwan, I. J., & Kumar, R. (Eds.). (2015). Nuclear Receptors: From Structure to the Clinic (1st ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Groundwater-Smith, S., & Irwin, J. (2011). Action Researchaction research in Educationeducation and Social Worksocial work. In L. Markauskaite, P. Freebody, & J. Irwin (Eds.), Methodological Choice and Design: Scholarship, Policy and Practice in Social and Educational Research (pp. 57–69). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Child Care and Education Policy.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 20). Coffee Won’t Give You Cancer, Unless It’s Very Very Hot, Then It Might. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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). FAA Work Forces: Important Decisions Affecting Staff Use and Management (No. T-RCED-93-59). 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

Mihalas, S. T. (2008). Positive protective factors as moderators in the relationship between relational victimization and depression in minority adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, March 13). Ed Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ Breaks a Global Record. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Westall 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bialek and Botstein 2004; Westall 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bialek and Botstein 2004)
Three or more authors: (Solanki et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
ISSN (online)	2288-6729
Scope