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

Croce, R., 2015. Structural biology. A close view of photosystem I. Science 348, 970–971.

A journal article with 2 authors

Claustre, H., Maritorena, S., 2003. Ocean science. The many shades of ocean blue. Science 302, 1514–1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wara, M.W., Ravelo, A.C., Delaney, M.L., 2005. Permanent El Niño-like conditions during the Pliocene warm period. Science 309, 758–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Banavar, J.R., Damuth, J., Maritan, A., Rinaldo, A., 2003. Physiology: Allometric cascades. Nature 421, 713–4; discussion 714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chance, D.M., 2008. Essays in Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Drexl, J., Grosse Ruse-Khan, H., Nadde-Phlix, S. (Eds.), 2014. EU Bilateral Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property: For Better or Worse?, MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Painter, R.M., 2005. Sympathy for the Devil? A Historical Tour of Literature and Cultural Representation, in: Tymieniecka, A.-T. (Ed.), The Enigma of Good and Evil; The Moral Sentiment in Literature, Analecta Husserliana. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 65–76.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Many People Use Drugs – But Here’s Why Most Don’t Become Addicts [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/many-people-use-drugs-here-s-why-most-don-t-become-addicts/ (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, 1988. ADP Planning: Allegations of Inadequate Procurements at the National Archives (No. IMTEC-88-34). 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

Owsiak, N.K., 2008. Teacher quality accountability measures: Perceptions of degree and direction of influence on university -based teacher education programs (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Mccain, J., 2017. We Must Support Human Rights. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Croce, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Claustre and Maritorena, 2003; Croce, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Claustre and Maritorena, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Banavar et al., 2003)

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