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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Granting longevity. Nature, 430(7002), 947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis, C. L., & Coffroth, M. A. (2004). The acquisition of exogenous algal symbionts by an octocoral after bleaching. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1490–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ju, S.-Y., Kopcha, W. P., & Papadimitrakopoulos, F. (2009). Brightly fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes via an oxygen-excluding surfactant organization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1319–1323.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, Y., Sun, K., Ma, Y., Yang, H., Zhang, Y., Kong, X., & Wei, L. (2014). Autophagy inhibits chemotherapy-induced apoptosis through downregulating Bad and Bim in hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 5382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sun, B. (2016). Multiphase Flow in Oil and Gas Well Drilling. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Brusov, P. (2015). Modern Corporate Finance, Investments and Taxation (T. Filatova, N. Orekhova, & M. Eskindarov, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brandt, P. (2007). Findings of market basket monitoring. In P. Brandt (Ed.), Reports on Food Safety 2005: Food Monitoring (pp. 13–33). Birkhäuser.

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

Evans, K. (2017, March 14). Organic Food Alone Cannot Provide A Sustainable Future. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/organic-food-alone-cannot-provide-a-sustainable-future/

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). Education and Employment Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1998-2000 (IAP-98-10). 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

Brigida, M. D. (2009). Target stock price runup prior to acquisitions [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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, June 7). Halep, Resigned to Defeat, Finds Out It’s Not Over Till It’s Over. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lewis & Coffroth, 2004; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lewis & Coffroth, 2004)
Three authors: (Ju et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

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