How to format your references using the Journal of Curriculum Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Curriculum Studies. 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

Coppi, P. (2007). Astronomy. Inside a cosmic train wreck. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5833), 1852–1854.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kennel, C., & Dressler, A. (2014). Space science. Coping with uncertainty in space science planning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6167), 140–141.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oh, K., Jeong, K. S., & Moore, J. S. (2001). Folding-driven synthesis of oligomers. Nature, 414(6866), 889–893.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ruiz-Pesini, E., Mishmar, D., Brandon, M., Procaccio, V., & Wallace, D. C. (2004). Effects of purifying and adaptive selection on regional variation in human mtDNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5655), 223–226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singleton, T. W., & Singleton, A. J. (2010). Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Seibert-Fohr, A. (Ed.). (2012). Judicial Independence in Transition (Vol. 233). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Andreão, R. V., Boudy, J., Dorizzi, B., Boucher, J.-M., & Graja, S. (2009). Statistical Models Based ECG Classification. In A. Naït-Ali (Ed.), Advanced Biosignal Processing (pp. 71–93). 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 Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, March 4). Mice Take After Their Fathers, And We Might Too. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mice-take-after-their-fathers-and-we-might-too/

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. (1999). Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 Financial Statements (AIMD-99-263). 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

Hurwitz, B. L. (2012). Viral community dynamics and functional specialization in the Pacific Ocean [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Crow, K. (2002, July 7). My Son the Bureaucrat, My Dad the Gadfly. New York Times, 143.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coppi, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Coppi, 2007; Kennel & Dressler, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kennel & Dressler, 2014)
Three authors: (Oh et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Ruiz-Pesini et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Curriculum Studies
Abbreviation	J. Curric. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0022-0272
ISSN (online)	1366-5839
Scope	Education