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

Mel, B. W. (2002). Neurobiology. What the synapse tells the neuron. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5561), 1845–1846.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strauss, J. F., 3rd, & Kafrissen, M. (2004). Waiting for the second coming. Nature, 432(7013), 43–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hovenden, M. J., Newton, P. C. D., & Wills, K. E. (2014). Seasonal not annual rainfall determines grassland biomass response to carbon dioxide. Nature, 511(7511), 583–586.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kers, J. A., Wach, M. J., Krasnoff, S. B., Widom, J., Cameron, K. D., Bukhalid, R. A., Gibson, D. M., Crane, B. R., & Loria, R. (2004). Nitration of a peptide phytotoxin by bacterial nitric oxide synthase. Nature, 429(6987), 79–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thériault, M., & Rosiers, F. D. (2011). Modeling Urban Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Berthod, A. (Ed.). (2010). Chiral Recognition in Separation Methods: Mechanisms and Applications. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bahadur, R., & Samuels, W. B. (2011). Drinking Water Critical Infrastructure and Its Protection. In R. M. Clark, S. Hakim, & A. Ostfeld (Eds.), Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection (pp. 65–85). 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 Science Education, Part B.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, February 6). Hulk-Like Antibiotics Seen Physically Tearing Superbugs Apart. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hulklike-antibiotics-physically-tearing-superbugs-apart/

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. (1988). Fund Accountability: Procedures Used for Selected Benefit/Mandatory Spending Programs Are Adequate (AFMD-88-30). 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

Davidson, W. B. (2010). High school athletics and the “whole adolescent”: A case study of three urban high schools [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

Vecsey, G. (2011, January 11). Subject Changes, But Ryan Talks On. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Mel, 2002; Strauss & Kafrissen, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Strauss & Kafrissen, 2004)
Three authors: (Hovenden et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Kers et al., 2004)

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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