How to format your references using the International Journal of Early Years Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Early Years Education. 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	Download the output style file
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

Butts, Carter T. 2009. “Revisiting the Foundations of Network Analysis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5939): 414–416.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roopnarine, Peter D., and Kenneth D. Angielczyk. 2015. “Community Stability and Selective Extinction during the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6256): 90–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deng, Lei, Zhou-Ping Shangguan, and Sandra Sweeney. 2014. “‘Grain for Green’ Driven Land Use Change and Carbon Sequestration on the Loess Plateau, China.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 7039.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dürr, M., A. Biedermann, Z. Hu, U. Höfer, and T. F. Heinz. 2002. “Probing High-Barrier Pathways of Surface Reactions by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5574): 1838–1841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troppens, Ulf, Rainer Erkens, and Wolfgang Müller. 2004. Storage Networks Explained. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dutta, Soumitra, Arnoud De Meyer, Amit Jain, and Gérard Richter, eds. 2006. The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ohno, Keiichi. 2008. “Vegetation-Geographic Evaluation of the Syntaxonomic System of Valley-Bottom Forests Occurring in the Cooltemperate Zone of the Japanese Archipelago.” In Ecology of Riparian Forests in Japan: Disturbance, Life History, and Regeneration, edited by Hitoshi Sakio and Toshikazu Tamura, 49–72. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Early Years Education.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. “Spanish Start-Up To Build The First European Reusable Rocket.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2001. Quality Assurance: The Fastener Quality Act’s Small-Lot Exemption. GAO-01-719. 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

Parker, Dillon D. 2017. “Uncovering Three Trumpet Works of Sofia Gubaidulina.” 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

Vecsey, George. 2011. “Uncertainty in Courthouse Fogs the View at the Stadium.” New York Times, August 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butts 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Butts 2009; Roopnarine and Angielczyk 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roopnarine and Angielczyk 2015)
Three authors: (Deng, Shangguan, and Sweeney 2014)
4 or more authors: (Dürr et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Early Years Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Early Years Educ.
ISSN (print)	0966-9760
ISSN (online)	1469-8463
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education