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

Georghiou, L. (2008). Europe’s research system must change. Nature, 452(7190), 935–936.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruths, J., & Ruths, D. (2014). Control profiles of complex networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1373–1376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dudovich, N., Oron, D., & Silberberg, Y. (2002). Single-pulse coherently controlled nonlinear Raman spectroscopy and microscopy. Nature, 418(6897), 512–514.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Li, X., Lu, C., Dai, J., Dong, S., Chen, Y., Hu, N., Wu, G., Liu, M., Yan, Z., & Liu, J.-M. (2014). Novel multiferroicity in GdMnO3 thin films with self-assembled nano-twinned domains. Scientific Reports, 4, 7019.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molloy, M., & Larner, W. (2013). Fashioning Globalisation. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Zeghloul, S., Laribi, M. A., & Gazeau, J.-P. (Eds.). (2016). Robotics and Mechatronics: Proceedings of the 4th IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 37). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Shtober-Zisu, N., & Inbar, M. (2014). Geomorphology. In T. Zohary, A. Sukenik, T. Berman, & A. Nishri (Eds.), Lake Kinneret: Ecology and Management (pp. 69–77). Springer Netherlands.

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

Hamilton, K. (2017, March 22). Here Are The Ages You Peak At Everything Throughout Life. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/here-are-the-ages-you-peak-at-everything-throughout-lifes/

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. (2012). Space Acquisitions: DOD Faces Challenges in Fully Realizing Benefits of Satellite Acquisition Improvements (GAO-12-563T). 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

Cortez, A. (2017). Life Is A Highway: Finding Your Way and Finding the Words [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Akbar, K. (2017, October 20). Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler. New York Times, MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Georghiou, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Georghiou, 2008; Ruths & Ruths, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ruths & Ruths, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

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