How to format your references using the Journal of Further and Higher Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Further and Higher Education. 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

Zare, Richard N. 2006. “Chemistry. Resonances in Reaction Dynamics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5766): 1383–1385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bork, Peer, and Richard Copley. 2001. “Genome Speak.” Nature 409 (6822): 815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Desai, Tushar J., Douglas G. Brownfield, and Mark A. Krasnow. 2014. “Alveolar Progenitor and Stem Cells in Lung Development, Renewal and Cancer.” Nature 507 (7491): 190–194.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Duan, Fucai, Yongjin Wang, Chuan-Chou Shen, Yi Wang, Hai Cheng, Chung-Che Wu, Hsun-Ming Hu, Xinggong Kong, Dianbing Liu, and Kan Zhao. 2014. “Evidence for Solar Cycles in a Late Holocene Speleothem Record from Dongge Cave, China.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells, Joseph T. 2017. Corporate Fraud Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Picozza, Eugenio, ed. 2016. Neurolaw: An Introduction. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Aggarwal, Charu C. 2009. “Trio A System for Data Uncertainty and Lineage.” In Managing and Mining Uncertain Data, edited by Charu C. Aggarwal, 1–35. Advances in Database Systems. 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 Further and Higher Education.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Scientists Teach Birds The ‘Language’ Of Another Bird Species.” 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. 2012. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Strategic Planning Needed to Better Manage Overlapping Programs across Multiple Agencies. GAO-12-108. 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

Estrada Marroquin, Erica M. 2013. “Using Support Groups to Help Kinship Caregivers Transition Youth to Safe and Productive Community Living: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Protess, Ben. 2017. “Lawyer Is Now Regulating Banking Industry He Has Spent a Career Protecting.” New York Times, May 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zare 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Zare 2006; Bork and Copley 2001).

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

Two authors: (Bork and Copley 2001)
Three authors: (Desai, Brownfield, and Krasnow 2014)
4 or more authors: (Duan et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Further and Higher Education
Abbreviation	J. Furth. High. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0309-877X
ISSN (online)	1469-9486
Scope	Education