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

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

Kysar, Douglas. 2011. “Supreme Court Ruling Is Good, Bad and Ugly.” Nature 474 (7352): 421.

A journal article with 2 authors

Polyak, Kornelia, and Andriy Marusyk. 2014. “Cancer: Clonal Cooperation.” Nature 508 (7494): 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Horodecki, Michał, Jonathan Oppenheim, and Andreas Winter. 2005. “Partial Quantum Information.” Nature 436 (7051): 673–676.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hofmann, Douglas C., Jin-Yoo Suh, Aaron Wiest, Gang Duan, Mary-Laura Lind, Marios D. Demetriou, and William L. Johnson. 2008. “Designing Metallic Glass Matrix Composites with High Toughness and Tensile Ductility.” Nature 451 (7182): 1085–1089.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson, Tara Rodden. 2010. Genetics for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Maharry, Dan. 2005. Beginning VB .NET 1.1 Databases: From Novice to Professional. Edited by James Huddleston, Ranga Raghuram, Scott Allen, Syed Fahad Gilani, Jacob Hammer Pedersen, and Jon Reid. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawtrakul, Asanee, Chaiyakorn Yingsaeree, and Frederic Andres. 2007. “Semantic Tracking in Peer-to-Peer Topic Maps Management.” In Databases in Networked Information Systems: 5th International Workshop, DNIS 2007, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, October 17-19, 2007. Proceedings, edited by Subhash Bhalla, 54–69. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Peace Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Gorgeous Time Lapse of Slow Marine Animal Movement.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gorgeous-time-lapse-slow-marine-animal-movement/.

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. 1996. General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. AA-96-28(2). 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

Watson, Katherine L. 2017. “Putting Together the Pieces of a Social Cognition Deficit: A Retrospective Case Study.” 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

Vecsey, George. 2010. “Best Way to Recruit a Runner? Take Him for a Ride.” New York Times, November 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kysar 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kysar 2011; Polyak and Marusyk 2014).

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

Two authors: (Polyak and Marusyk 2014)
Three authors: (Horodecki, Oppenheim, and Winter 2005)
4 or more authors: (Hofmann et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Peace Education
Abbreviation	J. Peace Educ.
ISSN (print)	1740-0201
ISSN (online)	1740-021X
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations