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

Spinrad, N. 2000. “New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet?” Nature 405 (6787): 623.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rajagopalan, Harith, and Christoph Lengauer. 2004. “Aneuploidy and Cancer.” Nature 432 (7015): 338–341.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furlong, Kevin P., Thorne Lay, and Charles J. Ammon. 2009. “A Great Earthquake Rupture across a Rapidly Evolving Three-Plate Boundary.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5924): 226–229.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Saitoe, M., T. L. Schwarz, J. A. Umbach, C. B. Gundersen, and Y. Kidokoro. 2001. “Absence of Junctional Glutamate Receptor Clusters in Drosophila Mutants Lacking Spontaneous Transmitter Release.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 (5529): 514–517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kwartler, Ted. 2017. Text Mining in Practice with R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Osipov, Andrei. 2013. Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions of Order Zero: Mathematical Tools for Bandlimited Approximation. Edited by Vladimir Rokhlin and Hong Xiao. Vol. 187. Applied Mathematical Sciences. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Majumdar, Tapan K., and Danny R. Howard. 2011. “The Use of Dried Blood Spots for Concentration Assessment in Pharmacokinetic Evaluations.” In Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development: Advances and Applications, Volume 3, edited by Peter L. Bonate and Danny R. Howard, 91–114. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Newly Created Protein Can Turn Brain Connections On And Off To Alter Cognitive Function.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/newly-created-protein-can-turn-brain-connections-on-and-off-to-alter-cognitive-function/.

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. Technology Transfer: Number and Characteristics of Inventions Licensed by Six Federal Agencies. RCED-99-173. 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

Mills Campbell, Dawn. 2017. “Exploratory Inquiry: Fundraising at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Reduce Resource Dependence.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Hardy, Michael. 2017. “After Storm, Houston Hopes to Regain Tourism Momentum.” New York Times, October 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spinrad 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Spinrad 2000; Rajagopalan and Lengauer 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rajagopalan and Lengauer 2004)
Three authors: (Furlong, Lay, and Ammon 2009)
4 or more authors: (Saitoe et al. 2001)

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