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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Templeton, A. (2002). Out of Africa again and again. Nature, 416(6876), 45–51.
A journal article with 2 authors
Milton, A. L., & Everitt, B. J. (2012). Neuroscience. Wiping drug memories. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6078), 167–168.
A journal article with 3 authors
Singh, S. K., Yamashita, A., & Gouaux, E. (2007). Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters. Nature, 448(7156), 952–956.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Sañudo-Wilhelmy, S. A., Kustka, A. B., Gobler, C. J., Hutchins, D. A., Yang, M., Lwiza, K., Burns, J., Capone, D. G., Raven, J. A., & Carpenter, E. J. (2001). Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 411(6833), 66–69.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Matte, G. S. (2015). Perfusion for Congenital Heart Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Morava, E., Baumgartner, M., Patterson, M., Rahman, S., Zschocke, J., & Peters, V. (Eds.). (2016). JIMD Reports, Volume 25 (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 25). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Marques de Sá, J. P. (2007). Non-Parametric Tests of Hypotheses. In J. P. Marques de Sá (Ed.), Applied Statistics Using SPSS, STATISTICA, MATLAB and R (pp. 171–222). 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
Andrews, R. (2017, March 17). Scientists Just Replicated The Infamous Milgram Experiment. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1996). Federally Funded R&D Centers: Observations on DOD Actions To Improve Management (T-NSIAD-96-117). 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
Capobianco, V. J. (2017). Effect of slot height variation on the aerodynamic performance of a circulation control airfoil: A CFD analysis [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
Crow, K. (2001, July 15). A 26-Year Dispute Over a Tower, With No End in Sight. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Templeton, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Milton & Everitt, 2012; Templeton, 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Milton & Everitt, 2012)
  • Three authors: (Singh et al., 2007)
  • 6 or more authors: (Sañudo-Wilhelmy et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
AbbreviationInt. J. Qual. Stud. Educ.
ISSN (print)0951-8398
ISSN (online)1366-5898
ScopeEducation

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