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

Smaglik, Paul. 2002. “A Climate of Uncertainty.” Nature 415 (6870): 6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chien, Kenneth, and Luther Chien. 2004. “The New Silk Road.” Nature 428 (6979): 208–209.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks, A. R., F. Marec, and J. A. Breeuwer. 2001. “A Mite Species That Consists Entirely of Haploid Females.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5526): 2479–2482.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Noad, M. J., D. H. Cato, M. M. Bryden, M. N. Jenner, and K. C. Jenner. 2000. “Cultural Revolution in Whale Songs.” Nature 408 (6812): 537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taber, Douglass F. 2006. Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Markantonakis, Konstantinos, and Keith Mayes, eds. 2014. Secure Smart Embedded Devices, Platforms and Applications. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, Yanzhu, and Liqun Chen. 2013. “Control of Chaotic Attitude Motion.” In Chaos in Attitude Dynamics of Spacecraft, edited by Liqun Chen, 131–163. 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

Hale, Tom. 2016. “NASA-Funded 3D Pizza Printer Now Works At Tourist Attractions.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasafunded-3d-pizza-printer-now-works-at-tourist-attractions/.

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. 2017. Internet of Things: Communities Deploy Projects by Combining Federal Support with Other Funds and Expertise. GAO-17-570. 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

Sonn, Andrew C. 2009. “Institutions’ Needs and Donors’ Dreams: A Case Study of Successful Student Affairs Fundraising Collaboration at Three Private Research Universities.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Mueller, Benjamin, Ashley Southall, and A. L. Baker. 2016. “Social Circles Collide on the Dance Floor. Then, a Deadly Brawl.” New York Times, August 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Chien and Chien 2004).

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

Two authors: (Chien and Chien 2004)
Three authors: (Weeks, Marec, and Breeuwer 2001)
4 or more authors: (Noad et al. 2000)

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