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

Patten, Lord. (2006). Europe pays the price for spending less. Nature, 441(7094), 691–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emerson, B. C., & Kolm, N. (2005). Species diversity can drive speciation. Nature, 434(7036), 1015–1017.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rajca, A., Wongsriratanakul, J., & Rajca, S. (2001). Magnetic ordering in an organic polymer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5546), 1503–1505.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yagi, H., Nakagawa, N., Saito, T., Kiyonari, H., Abe, T., Toda, T., Wu, S.-W., Khoo, K.-H., Oka, S., & Kato, K. (2013). AGO61-dependent GlcNAc modification primes the formation of functional glycans on α-dystroglycan. Scientific Reports, 3, 3288.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherrie, J. W., Howie, R. M., & Semple, S. (2010). Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Corchado, E., Kurzyński, M., & Woźniak, M. (Eds.). (2011). Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 6th International Conference, HAIS 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 6679). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Post, W. (2014). Wheel brakes. In K. Reif (Ed.), Brakes, Brake Control and Driver Assistance Systems: Function, Regulation and Components (pp. 56–73). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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

Taub, B. (2016, May 24). South Africa Lifts Ban On Sale Of Rhino Horn. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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 Management: Briefing on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Inventory Accountability (AIMD-99-98R). 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

Bennett, A. L. (2019). An Empirical Longitudinal Analysis of Agile Methodologies and Firm Financial Performance [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Markoff, J. (2017, March 1). Shhh! That Helpful Robot May Pose a Security Risk. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patten, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Emerson & Kolm, 2005; Patten, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Emerson & Kolm, 2005)
Three authors: (Rajca et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Yagi et al., 2013)

About the journal

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