How to format your references using the International Journal of Science Education, Part B citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Science Education, Part B. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Nadeem, M. (2014). Unconditionally secure commitment in position-based quantum cryptography. Scientific Reports, 4, 6774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chaudhuri, J., & Jasin, M. (2007). Immunology. Antibodies get a break. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5810), 335–336.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J. H., Kloc, C., & Batlogg, B. (2000). Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60. Nature, 408(6812), 549–552.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Choi, D., Moneck, M., Liu, X., Oh, S. J., Kagan, C. R., Coffey, K. R., & Barmak, K. (2013). Crystallographic anisotropy of the resistivity size effect in single crystal tungsten nanowires. Scientific Reports, 3, 2591.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmutsky, A. (2010). System Design for Telecommunication Gateways. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bretschger, L., & Smulders, S. (Eds.). (2007). Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics (Vol. 10). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Saleem, M., Mehmood, Q., & Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C. (2015). FEASIBLE: A Feature-Based SPARQL Benchmark Generation Framework. In M. Arenas, O. Corcho, E. Simperl, M. Strohmaier, M. d’Aquin, K. Srinivas, P. Groth, M. Dumontier, J. Heflin, K. Thirunarayan, & S. Staab (Eds.), The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015: 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 11-15, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 52–69). 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 Science Education, Part B.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, April 9). Birds Feast on Bugs Living in Sloth Fur. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/birds-feast-bugs-living-sloth-fur/

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. (2007). Federal Aviation Administration: Key Issues in Ensuring the Efficient Development and Safe Operation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (GAO-07-636T). 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

Quinn, L. (2013). The poetics of soul: Mythic narrative as creative elegy [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Fuller, T., Turkewitz, J., Alcindor, Y., Dougherty, C., & Kovaleski, S. F. (2016, December 22). A ‘Ghost Ship’ All but Unseen, Until 36 Died. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadeem, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chaudhuri & Jasin, 2007; Nadeem, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chaudhuri & Jasin, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Science Education, Part B
ISSN (print)	2154-8455
ISSN (online)	2154-8463
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