How to format your references using the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Qualitative Studies in 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

Lenski, R. E. (2000). No mercy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5493), 936a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baker, R. P., & Urban, S. (2015). Cytosolic extensions directly regulate a rhomboid protease by modulating substrate gating. Nature, 523(7558), 101–105.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aida, T., Meijer, E. W., & Stupp, S. I. (2012). Functional supramolecular polymers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6070), 813–817.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lucht, W., Prentice, I. C., Myneni, R. B., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Cramer, W., Bousquet, P., Buermann, W., & Smith, B. (2002). Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1687–1689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, B. R. (2009). Fundraising Law Made Easy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Potylitsyn, A. P. (2011). Diffraction Radiation from Relativistic Particles (M. I. Ryazanov, M. N. Strikhanov, & A. A. Tishchenko, Eds.; Vol. 239). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, T., Mathew, G., Zhong, H., & Micheloni, R. (2011). Modern Hard Disk Drive Systems: Fundamentals and Future Trends. In G. Campardo, F. Tiziani, & M. Iaculo (Eds.), Memory Mass Storage (pp. 169–212). Springer.

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 Qualitative Studies in Education.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, May 11). The Largest Living Thing On Earth Is Mostly Hidden From View. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-largest-living-thing-on-earth-is-mostly-hidden-from-view/

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. (2014). Federal Vehicle Collisions and Aftermarket Collision Avoidance Technologies (GAO-14-408R). 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

Yuknis, C. M. (2010). A grounded theory of deaf middle school students’ revision of their own writing [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Crow, K. (2001, November 4). On Once-Bawdy 42nd Street, The Last Dirty Picture Show. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lenski, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Baker & Urban, 2015; Lenski, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Baker & Urban, 2015)
Three authors: (Aida et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Lucht et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Qual. Stud. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0951-8398
ISSN (online)	1366-5898
Scope	Education