How to format your references using the International Review of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Review of 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	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

Tauxe, W. (2015). Genome editing: 4 big questions. Nature, 528(7580), S17.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaproth, B. M., & Marone, C. (2013). Slow earthquakes, preseismic velocity changes, and the origin of slow frictional stick-slip. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6151), 1229–1232.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siveter, D. J., Williams, M., & Waloszek, D. (2001). A phosphatocopid crustacean with appendages from the Lower Cambrian. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5529), 479–481.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Feng, L., Zhou, S., Gu, L., Gell, D. A., Mackay, J. P., Weiss, M. J., et al. (2005). Structure of oxidized alpha-haemoglobin bound to AHSP reveals a protective mechanism for haem. Nature, 435(7042), 697–701.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fulton, B. S. (2014). Drug Discovery for the Treatment of Addiction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kamm, J., & Neumann, B. (Eds.). (2016). British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Pickering, S., McCulloch, J., & Wright-Neville, D. (2008). The Police. In J. McCulloch & D. Wright-Neville (Eds.), Counter-Terrorism Policing: Community, Cohesion and Security (pp. 71–89). New York, NY: 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 Review of Education.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, August 18). Nearly 1 Billion People Worldwide Still Smoke Everyday. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2001). Business Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS’ Customer Account Data Engine Project (No. GAO-01-717). Washington, DC: 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

Taylor, M. S. (2015). Too Close to the Knives: Children’s Rights, Parental Authority, and Best Interests in the Context of Elective Pediatric Surgeries (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Megalogenis, G. (2017, May 11). Australia’s leftward turn. New York Times, p. 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tauxe 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kaproth and Marone 2013; Tauxe 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kaproth and Marone 2013)
Three or more authors: (Feng et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Review of Education
Abbreviation	Int. Rev. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0020-8566
ISSN (online)	1573-0638
Scope	Education