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

Check, E. (2003). Cancer fears cast doubts on future of gene therapy. Nature, 421(6924), 678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wills-Karp, M., & Karp, C. L. (2004). Biomedicine. Eosinophils in asthma: remodeling a tangled tale. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1726–1729.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bolmatov, D., Musaev, E. T., & Trachenko, K. (2013). Symmetry breaking gives rise to energy spectra of three states of matter. Scientific reports, 3, 2794.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jiang, Y., Wang, H.-Y., Li, Y., Guo, S.-H., Zhang, L., Cai, J.-H., et al. (2014). Peripheral blood miRNAs as a biomarker for chronic cardiovascular diseases. Scientific reports, 4, 5026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid, M. M. (2006). Spacecraft Sensors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rattigan-Rohr, J. (Ed.). (2012). It Takes a Village: A Collaborative Assault on the Struggling Reader Dilemma. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Strate, J., & Krueger, T. (2012). Index Myths and Best Practices. In T. Krueger (Ed.), Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 (pp. 121–134). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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

Taub, B. (2016, May 16). Common Painkiller Could Make You Less Able To Feel Empathy. 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. (2007). No Child Left Behind Act: Education Assistance Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency (No. GAO-07-646T). 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

Dilenschneider, A. M. (2010). Refusing to be put aside: Women and the meaning of betrayal (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Schwirtz, M., & Rashbaum, W. K. (2017, May 8). Accused of Spying, a New York City Correction Official Is Removed. New York Times, p. A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2003; Wills-Karp and Karp 2004).

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

Two authors: (Wills-Karp and Karp 2004)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2014)

About the journal

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