How to format your references using the International Journal of Inclusive Education citation style

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

Seliktar, Dror. 2012. “Designing Cell-Compatible Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6085): 1124–1128.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohlstein, Benjamin, and Allan Spradling. 2006. “The Adult Drosophila Posterior Midgut Is Maintained by Pluripotent Stem Cells.” Nature 439 (7075): 470–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Piana, Stefano, Manijeh Reyhani, and Julian D. Gale. 2005. “Simulating Micrometre-Scale Crystal Growth from Solution.” Nature 438 (7064): 70–73.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chen, Wei-Hai, Xiao-Ding Xu, Guo-Feng Luo, Hui-Zhen Jia, Qi Lei, Si-Xue Cheng, Ren-Xi Zhuo, and Xian-Zheng Zhang. 2013. “Dual-Targeting pro-Apoptotic Peptide for Programmed Cancer Cell Death via Specific Mitochondria Damage.” Scientific Reports 3 (December): 3468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chow, Shein-Chung, and Jen-Pei Liu. 2005. Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Aichernig, Bernhard K., and Carlo A. Furia, eds. 2016. Tests and Proofs: 10th International Conference, TAP 2016, Held as Part of STAF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 5-7, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9762. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tozier, William A. 2016. “GP As If You Meant It: An Exercise for Mindful Practice.” In Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XIII, edited by Rick Riolo, W. P. Worzel, Mark Kotanchek, and Arthur Kordon, 59–78. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Inclusive Education.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “What’s The Most Common Surname In Different Countries Across The World?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/whats-the-most-common-surname-in-different-countries-across-the-world/.

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. Social Security Administration: Software Development Process Improvements Started But Work Remains. AIMD-98-39. Washington, DC: 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

Kharal, Shankar Prasad. 2017. “Modelling Sensitization Dynamics in 5xxx Series Aluminum Alloys.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Hubbard, Ben, and Ian Fisher. 2017. “President Puts Saudis at Core Of Peace Effort.” New York Times, May 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seliktar 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Seliktar 2012; Ohlstein and Spradling 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ohlstein and Spradling 2006)
Three authors: (Piana, Reyhani, and Gale 2005)
4 or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Inclusive Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Incl. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1360-3116
ISSN (online)	1464-5173
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Education