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

Cantley, Lewis C. 2002. “The Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Pathway.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5573): 1655–1657.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, Zhiwen, and Jizheng Wang. 2014. “PIN Architecture for Ultrasensitive Organic Thin Film Photoconductors.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Jung Bin, Chankyu Park, and Seoul National University Investigation Committee. 2006. “Molecular Genetics: Verification That Snuppy Is a Clone.” Nature 440 (7081): E2-3.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Reysenbach, Anna-Louise, Yitai Liu, Amy B. Banta, Terry J. Beveridge, Julie D. Kirshtein, Stefan Schouten, Margaret K. Tivey, Karen L. Von Damm, and Mary A. Voytek. 2006. “A Ubiquitous Thermoacidophilic Archaeon from Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents.” Nature 442 (7101): 444–447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wren, Christopher. 2011. Concise Guide to Pediatric Arrhythmias. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

McCaffrey, Robert J., Lyndsey Bauer, Anjali A. Palav, and Sid E. O’Bryant, eds. 2006. Practitioner’s Guide to Symptom Base Rates in the General Population. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mesquita, Mônica, Sal Restivo, and Ubiratan D’Ambrosio. 2011. “São Paulo.” In Asphalt Children and City Streets: A Life, a City and a Case Study of History, Culture, and Ethnomathematics in São Paulo, edited by Mônica Mesquita, Sal Restivo, and Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, 71–107. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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. 2015. “What’s The Happiest Country In The World?” 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. 2003. College Completion: Additional Efforts Could Help Education with Its Completion Goals. GAO-03-568. 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

Alai, Nicole L. 2017. “Development of a Sport-Specific Curriculum Addressing Selfefficacy to Optimize Carbohydrate and Calorie Intake Among Male and Female High School Cross-Country Runners.” 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

Fernandez, Manny, Nicholas Kulish, and Susan Anasagasti. 2017. “For Migrants, Peril on 18 Wheels; For Smugglers, a Profit Machine.” New York Times, July 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cantley 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cantley 2002; Jin and Wang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Jin and Wang 2014)
Three authors: (Lee, Park, and Seoul National University Investigation Committee 2006)
4 or more authors: (Reysenbach et al. 2006)

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