How to format your references using the Journal of Science Education and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Science Education and Technology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

MacDonald HR (2002) Immunology. T before NK. Science 296:481–482

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith ER, Mackie DM (2009) Behavior. Surprising emotions. Science 323:215–216

A journal article with 3 authors

Srisonphan S, Kim M, Kim HK (2014) Space charge neutralization by electron-transparent suspended graphene. Sci Rep 4:3764

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yeung C-YC, Gossan N, Lu Y, et al (2014) Gremlin-2 is a BMP antagonist that is regulated by the circadian clock. Sci Rep 4:5183

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson RJ, Groundwater PW, Todd A, Worsley AJ (2012) Antibacterial Agents. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mohr B, Träff JL, Worringen J, Dongarra J (eds) (2006) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 13th European PVM/MPI User’s Group Meeting Bonn, Germany, September 17-20, 2006 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Novakovic B, Knezevic I (2011) Quantum Master Equations in Electronic Transport. In: Vasileska D, Goodnick SM (eds) Nano-Electronic Devices: Semiclassical and Quantum Transport Modeling. Springer, New York, NY, pp 249–287

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 Science Education and Technology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) “The Beast” Asteroid Tracked As It Passed Earth By. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2010) Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress but Faces Challenges in Meeting the Statutory Mandate for Screening Air Cargo on Passenger Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Roberts EM (2006) Whose Books Get Published?: Individual Agency and the Business of Children’s Publishing. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Koblin J (2017) After Search Of 5 Months, CBS Names New Anchor. New York Times B4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (MacDonald 2002).
This sentence cites two references (MacDonald 2002; Smith and Mackie 2009).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Mackie 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yeung et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Science Education and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Sci. Educ. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1059-0145
ISSN (online)	1573-1839
Scope	General Engineering Education