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

Benford, G. (2000). Taking control. Nature, 406(6795), 462.

A journal article with 2 authors

Manoli, D. S., & Baker, B. S. (2004). Median bundle neurons coordinate behaviours during Drosophila male courtship. Nature, 430(6999), 564–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meeusen, S., McCaffery, J. M., & Nunnari, J. (2004). Mitochondrial fusion intermediates revealed in vitro. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1747–1752.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schiano, P., Clocchiatti, R., Ottolini, L., & Busà, T. (2001). Transition of Mount Etna lavas from a mantle-plume to an island-arc magmatic source. Nature, 412(6850), 900–904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG. (2013). Funding Atlas 2012. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Provis, J. L., & van Deventer, J. S. J. (Eds.). (2014). Alkali Activated Materials: State-of-the-Art Report, RILEM TC 224-AAM (Vol. 13). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Borges, P., Monteiro, P., & Machado, R. J. (2012). Mapping RUP Roles to Small Software Development Teams. In S. Biffl, D. Winkler, & J. Bergsmann (Eds.), Software Quality. Process Automation in Software Development: 4th International Conference, SWQD 2012, Vienna, Austria, January 17-19, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 59–70). 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 Child Care and Education Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 26). 3D Printed Robot Takes Hoverbike Out For A Spin. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printed-robot-takes-hoverbike-out-spin/. 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. (2012). Environmental Satellites: Focused Attention Needed to Mitigate Program Risks (No. GAO-12-841T). 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

Jackson, M. (2012). A Bibliometric Analysis of Green Building Literature (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Shear, M. D. (2016, December 9). Trump as Cyberbully in Chief? New Twitter Attack Draws Fire. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benford 2000; Manoli and Baker 2004).

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

Two authors: (Manoli and Baker 2004)
Three or more authors: (Schiano et al. 2001)

About the journal

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