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

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

Driehuys, B. (2006). Chemistry. Toward molecular imaging with xenon MRI. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5798), 432–433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chandrashekar, C. M., & Busch, T. (2014). Quantum percolation and transition point of a directed discrete-time quantum walk. Scientific Reports, 4, 6583.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shuman, E. S., Barry, J. F., & Demille, D. (2010). Laser cooling of a diatomic molecule. Nature, 467(7317), 820–823.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bull, M. J., Jolley, K. A., Bray, J. E., Aerts, M., Vandamme, P., Maiden, M. C. J., Marchesi, J. R., & Mahenthiralingam, E. (2014). The domestication of the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus. Scientific Reports, 4, 7202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yeakley, C. L., & Fiebrich, J. D. (2015). Collaborative Process Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Spaccapietra, S., Atzeni, P., Fages, F., Hacid, M.-S., Kifer, M., Mylopoulos, J., Pernici, B., Shvaiko, P., Trujillo, J., & Zaihrayeu, I. (Eds.). (2007). Journal on Data Semantics IX (Vol. 4601). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Saling, P. (2016). Eco-efficiency Assessment. In M. Finkbeiner (Ed.), Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment (pp. 115–178). Springer Netherlands.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 5). Man Receives First Scalp And Skull Transplant. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-receives-first-scalp-and-skull-transplant/

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. (2003). Highway Infrastructure: FHWA Has Acted to Disclose the Limitations of Its Environmental Review Analysis (GAO-03-338R). 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

Baker, D. (2016). Does team patient care mean better patient outcomes? [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Barron, J. (2017, January 15). The Paintings of an ‘Outsider’ Are (Finally) Revealed. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Driehuys, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chandrashekar & Busch, 2014; Driehuys, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Chandrashekar & Busch, 2014)
Three authors: (Shuman et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Bull et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Educational Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	0883-0355
Scope	Education