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

Avise, J.C., 2001. Evolving genomic metaphors: a new look at the language of DNA. Science 294, 86–87.

A journal article with 2 authors

Modlin, R.L., Bloom, B.R., 2001. Immunology. Chip shots--will functional genomics get functional? Science 294, 799–801.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pack, A., Shelley, J.M.G., Palme, H., 2004. Chondrules with peculiar REE patterns: implications for solar nebular condensation at high C/O. Science 303, 997–1000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Du, H., Zhang, X., Du, M., Guo, N., Chen, Z., Shu, Y., Zhang, Z., Wang, M., Zhu, L., 2014. Association study between XPG Asp1104His polymorphism and colorectal cancer risk in a Chinese population. Sci. Rep. 4, 6700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B., 2010. Legal Aspects of Occupational Therapy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Pooley, R., Coady, J., Schneider, C., Linger, H., Barry, C., Lang, M. (Eds.), 2013. Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Pulinilkunnil, T., Nagendran, J., Dyck, J.R.B., 2012. AMPK and Metabolic Remodeling in Cardiac Disease, in: Patterson, C., Willis, M.S. (Eds.), Translational Cardiology: Molecular Basis of Cardiac Metabolism, Cardiac Remodeling, Translational Therapies and Imaging Techniques. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 113–150.

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. Brazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer Cells, But Not Healthy Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1971. Computer Simulations, War Gaming, and Contract Studies (No. B-163074). 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

Friedman, D.E., 2017. Characterization of Organic Matter in Suspended Sediments Via Pyrolysis and Oxidation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Norton, M.B., 2011. Finding More Founders. New York Times BR20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Avise, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Avise, 2001; Modlin and Bloom, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Modlin and Bloom, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Du et al., 2014)

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