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

Braxton, J. M. (2012). Education: Make mentorship matter. Nature, 487(7406), 165–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marti, K., & Kerridge, J. (2010). Planetary science. Nitrogen in the solar system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5982), 1112–1113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barnes, S. E., Ieda, J., & Maekawa, S. (2014). Rashba spin-orbit anisotropy and the electric field control of magnetism. Scientific reports, 4, 4105.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, L., Gan, Z., McCartney, M. R., Liang, H., Yu, H., Gao, Y., et al. (2013). Atomic configurations at InAs partial dislocation cores associated with Z-shape faulted dipoles. Scientific reports, 3, 3229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higgs, J., & Titchen, A. (2008). Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Hemmje, M., Niederée, C., & Risse, T. (Eds.). (2005). From Integrated Publication and Information Systems to Information and Knowledge Environments: Essays Dedicated to Erich J. Neuhold on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Vol. 3379). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosales, J. C., & García-Sánchez, P. A. (2009). Irreducible numerical semigroups. In P. A. García-Sánchez (Ed.), Numerical Semigroups (pp. 33–55). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, October 30). What Is This Bizarre See-Through Creature? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-leptocephalus/. 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. (1978). Activities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation of San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas (No. HRD-78-106). 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

Weissflug, K. G. (2009). Effects of Positive Behavior Support Programs on Student Behaviors (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Semple, K., & Chen, D. W. (2015, May 9). In Skelos Case, a Son Whose Life Seemed to Lose Traction Early. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Braxton 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Braxton 2012; Marti and Kerridge 2010).

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

Two authors: (Marti and Kerridge 2010)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

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