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

Barry, C. (2015). Infectious disease. More than just bugs in spit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6235), 633–634.

A journal article with 2 authors

Van Tuyl, R., & Pereltsvaig, A. (2012). Comment on “Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6069), 657; author reply 657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werfel, J., Petersen, K., & Nagpal, R. (2014). Designing collective behavior in a termite-inspired robot construction team. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6172), 754–758.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Matsubayashi, K., Maki, M., Tsuzuki, T., Nishioka, T., & Sato, N. K. (2002). Magnetic properties: parasitic ferromagnetism in a hexaboride? Nature, 420(6912), 143–144; discussion 144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss, A. (2009). Getting Started in Consulting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Yuan, J., Thalmann, D., & You, B.-J. (Eds.). (2016). Context Aware Human-Robot and Human-Agent Interaction. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

McCullough, L. B., Caskey, J., Cole, T. R., & Wear, A. (2008). Scientific and Medical Concepts of Nature in the Modern Period in Europe and North America. In B. A. Lustig, B. A. Brody, & G. P. McKenny (Eds.), Altering Nature: Volume One: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates (pp. 137–198). 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. (2014, May 20). Dogs Incredibly Accurate When Sniffing Out Cancer. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dogs-incredibly-accurate-when-sniffing-out-cancer/

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. (2016). High-Containment Laboratories: Improved Oversight of Dangerous Pathogens Needed to Mitigate Risk (GAO-16-642). 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

Kyriacou, A. (2011). A method of verification of the total treatment time for the APBI (Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation) devices: Contura Multilumen Balloon and SAVI applicator [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic University.

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

Loomis, G. (2012, October 23). One “Lulu” Has Little New to Say, While Another Can Do No Wrong. New York Times, 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barry, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Barry, 2015; Van Tuyl & Pereltsvaig, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Van Tuyl & Pereltsvaig, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Matsubayashi et al., 2002)

About the journal

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