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

Cammack, N. (2011). Microbiology. Exploiting malaria drug resistance to our advantage. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043), 705–706.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, J., & Kriegstein, A. R. (2015). A GABAergic projection from the zona incerta to cortex promotes cortical neuron development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6260), 554–558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izawa, Y., Pun, D., & Stahl, S. S. (2011). Palladium-catalyzed aerobic dehydrogenation of substituted cyclohexanones to phenols. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6039), 209–213.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pearce, J. A., Leat, P. T., Barker, P. F., & Millar, I. L. (2001). Geochemical tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic upper-mantle flow through the Drake passage. Nature, 410(6827), 457–461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heiberger, R. M. (2015). Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nóbrega, C., & Rodriguez-López, R. (Eds.). (2014). Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Development of Obesity. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, R. E., & Kuk, J. L. (2016). Composite Risk Scores. In J. I. Mechanick & R. F. Kushner (Eds.), Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice (pp. 41–54). 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

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 5). Plastic From The UK Is Choking The Arctic. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/plastic-from-the-uk-is-choking-the-arctic/

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. (2010). Aviation Safety: Improved Planning Could Help FAA Address Challenges Related to Winter Weather Operations (GAO-10-678). 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

Knight, M. (2012). Technological Advancement in Conflict Assessment: A Case Study of the Fund for Peace’s Universal Network of Local Knowledge in Liberia [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Billard, M. (2010, May 13). And Here’s How It Got on Your Head. New York Times, E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cammack, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cammack, 2011; Chen & Kriegstein, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Kriegstein, 2015)
Three authors: (Izawa et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Pearce et al., 2001)

About the journal

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