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

Levinger, Nancy E. 2002. “Chemistry. Water in Confinement.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5599): 1722–1723.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huard, B., and L. Karlsson. 2000. “KIR Expression on Self-Reactive CD8+ T Cells Is Controlled by T-Cell Receptor Engagement.” Nature 403 (6767): 325–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, Jessica L., Brendan J. M. Bohannan, and Rachel J. Whitaker. 2008. “Microbial Biogeography: From Taxonomy to Traits.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5879): 1039–1043.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Evrard, Olivier, Caroline Chartin, Yuichi Onda, Jeremy Patin, Hugo Lepage, Irène Lefèvre, Sophie Ayrault, Catherine Ottlé, and Philippe Bonté. 2013. “Evolution of Radioactive Dose Rates in Fresh Sediment Deposits along Coastal Rivers Draining Fukushima Contamination Plume.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 3079.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pohanish, Richard P. 2005. HazMat Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gontier, Nathalie, ed. 2015. Reticulate Evolution: Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity. Vol. 3. Interdisciplinary Evolution Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, Qishi, and Yi Gu. 2011. “Performance Analysis and Optimization of Linear Workflows in Heterogeneous Network Environments.” In Grid Computing: Towards a Global Interconnected Infrastructure, edited by Nikolaos P. Preve, 89–120. Computer Communications and Networks. London: 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 Further and Higher Education.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “You Can Now Access All Of NASA’s Research Online For Free.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-now-access-all-of-nasas-research-online-for-free/.

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. 1973. Protest of Air Force Contract Award. B-177968. 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

Plosky, Willyanne Decormier. 2017. “An Investment Case for Addressing Social Drivers of Structural Stigma and Discrimination Against Refugees in Resource-Poor Urban Areas.” Doctoral dissertation, New York, NY: Columbia 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

Brantley, Ben. 2017. “Summoning the Dead With Sacred Coca-Cola.” New York Times, October 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levinger 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Levinger 2002; Huard and Karlsson 2000).

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

Two authors: (Huard and Karlsson 2000)
Three authors: (Green, Bohannan, and Whitaker 2008)
4 or more authors: (Evrard et al. 2013)

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