How to format your references using the Journal of Educational Change citation style

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

Collins, F. S. (2010). Research agenda. Opportunities for research and NIH. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5961), 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Franchi, L., & Núñez, G. (2012). Immunology. Orchestrating inflammasomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6100), 1299–1300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grirrane, A., Corma, A., & García, H. (2008). Gold-catalyzed synthesis of aromatic azo compounds from anilines and nitroaromatics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5908), 1661–1664.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wuite, G. J., Smith, S. B., Young, M., Keller, D., & Bustamante, C. (2000). Single-molecule studies of the effect of template tension on T7 DNA polymerase activity. Nature, 404(6773), 103–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunt, P. J., & Kennedy, J. E. (2005). Financial Derivatives in Theory and Practice: Hunt/Financial Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Daniels, J., & Hoffman, M. R. (Eds.). (2011). Common Musculoskeletal Problems: A Handbook. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, Z. R. (2006). A Fast Algorithm for Relevance Vector Machine. In E. Corchado, H. Yin, V. Botti, & C. Fyfe (Eds.), Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2006: 7th International Conference, Burgos, Spain, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 33–39). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Educational Change.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 17). Can Handshake Strength Really Predict Your Mortality Risk? IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1990). Insurance Regulation: The Insurance Regulatory Information System Needs Improvement (No. GGD-91-20). 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

Anderson, D. (2004). Chamber Music in Early Piano Study: A Guide to Repertoire (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, February 4). Suffolk Bill Focuses On Day Laborers. New York Times, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Collins 2010; Franchi and Núñez 2012).

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

Two authors: (Franchi and Núñez 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wuite et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Educational Change
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Chang.
ISSN (print)	1389-2843
ISSN (online)	1573-1812
Scope	Education