How to format your references using the International Journal of Educational Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Educational Development. 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

Hauser, M.D., 2009. The possibility of impossible cultures. Nature 460, 190–196.

A journal article with 2 authors

Froehler, M.T., Duffy, C.J., 2002. Cortical neurons encoding path and place: where you go is where you are. Science 295, 2462–2465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rauzi, M., Lenne, P.-F., Lecuit, T., 2010. Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling. Nature 468, 1110–1114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Parman, S.W., Kurz, M.D., Hart, S.R., Grove, T.L., 2005. Helium solubility in olivine and implications for high 3He/4He in ocean island basalts. Nature 437, 1140–1143.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prutchi, D., Norris, M., 2004. Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ramer, K., 2008. Nuclear Medicine Technology, 3rd ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Richter, S., 2012. Pater patriae sinensis. The Discovery of Patriarchal Rule in China and Its Significance for German Theories of State in the Eighteenth Century, in: Flüchter, A., Richter, S. (Eds.), Structures on the Move: Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter, Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–86.

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 Educational Development.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. US Military’s “Self-steering” Bullets Can Hit A Moving Target [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/us-militarys-self-steering-bullets-can-hit-moving-target/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Supersedes AIMD-98-110) (No. AIMD-99-32). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hoscoe, B.T., 2014. Assistive technology and the promotion of inclusion for special needs children in public schools: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Koblin, J., 2017. Grammy Awards Gain a Million More Viewers. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hauser, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Froehler and Duffy, 2002; Hauser, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Froehler and Duffy, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Parman et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Educational Development
Abbreviation	Int. J. Educ. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0738-0593
Scope	Development Education Sociology and Political Science