How to format your references using the Journal of Education for Teaching citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Education for Teaching. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gershon, Diane. 2005. “Thinking Big Texas.” Nature 434 (7037): 1160–1161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coudreuse, Damien, and Paul Nurse. 2010. “Driving the Cell Cycle with a Minimal CDK Control Network.” Nature 468 (7327): 1074–1079.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobler, Philippe N., Christopher D. Fiorillo, and Wolfram Schultz. 2005. “Adaptive Coding of Reward Value by Dopamine Neurons.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5715): 1642–1645.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Behrens, Mark R., Nedim Mutlu, Sarbani Chakraborty, Razvan Dumitru, Wen Zhi Jiang, Bradley J. Lavallee, Patricia L. Herman, Thomas E. Clemente, and Donald P. Weeks. 2007. “Dicamba Resistance: Enlarging and Preserving Biotechnology-Based Weed Management Strategies.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5828): 1185–1188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Black, Rex. 2016. Pragmatic Software Testing. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meško, Gorazd, Charles B. Fields, Branko Lobnikar, and Andrej Sotlar, eds. 2013. Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wachnik, Bartosz. 2016. “Moral Hazard in IT Project Completion. An Analysis of Supplier and Client Behavior in Polish and German Enterprises.” In Information Technology for Management: Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, ISM 2015 and AITM 2015, Lodz, Poland, September 2015, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Ewa Ziemba, 77–90. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Education for Teaching.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. “Simulation Shows What Would Happen If The Moon Hit Earth.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-would-happen-if-moon-hit-earth/.

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. 1986. Inventory Management: Problems in Accountability and Security of DOD Supply Inventories. NSIAD-86-106BR. 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

Schultz, Sarah M. 2010. “Interpreting the Assemblages of Lonnie Holley through His Performative Explanations.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Becker, J. O., Adam Goldman, and Matt Apuzzo. 2017. “Emails Disclose Trump Son’s Glee at Russian Offer.” New York Times, July 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2005; Coudreuse and Nurse 2010).

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

Two authors: (Coudreuse and Nurse 2010)
Three authors: (Tobler, Fiorillo, and Schultz 2005)
4 or more authors: (Behrens et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Education for Teaching
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Teach.
ISSN (print)	0260-7476
ISSN (online)	1360-0540
Scope	Education