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

Bilkey, D. K. (2004). Neuroscience. In the place space. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5688), 1245–1246.

A journal article with 2 authors

Owen, R., & Jobling, S. (2012). Environmental science: The hidden costs of flexible fertility. Nature, 485(7399), 441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Simon, P., Gogotsi, Y., & Dunn, B. (2014). Materials science. Where do batteries end and supercapacitors begin? Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6176), 1210–1211.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Araújo, A. D., Parteli, E. J. R., Pöschel, T., Andrade, J. S., & Herrmann, H. J. (2013). Numerical modeling of the wind flow over a transverse dune. Scientific reports, 3, 2858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cross, M., & MacDonald, B. (2008). Nutrition in Institutions. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Bernard, D., Buffière, J.-Y., Pollock, T., Poulsen, H. F., Rollett, A., & Uchic, M. (Eds.). (2016). Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on 3D Materials Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zviadadze, S. (2015). Georgian Orthodox Church and Human Rights: Challenges to Georgian Society. In H.-G. Ziebertz & G. Črpić (Eds.), Religion and Human Rights: An International Perspective (pp. 45–60). 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 Child Care and Education Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 3). The Hunt: A Natural History Series That Challenges Us To Side With The Predators. 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. (2012). K-12 Education: School-Based Physical Education and Sports Programs (No. GAO-12-350). 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

Turpin-Padberg, S. (2017). Effects of Elementary Teacher Preparation and Support on Retention (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Johnson, G. (2011, March 27). The Enduring Afterglow. New York Times, p. WK1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bilkey 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bilkey 2004; Owen and Jobling 2012).

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

Two authors: (Owen and Jobling 2012)
Three or more authors: (Araújo et al. 2013)

About the journal

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

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