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

Prieto GA (2012) Geophysics. Imaging the deep Earth. Science 338:1037–1038

A journal article with 2 authors

Digicaylioglu M, Lipton SA (2001) Erythropoietin-mediated neuroprotection involves cross-talk between Jak2 and NF-kappaB signalling cascades. Nature 412:641–647

A journal article with 3 authors

Basile-Doelsch I, Meunier JD, Parron C (2005) Another continental pool in the terrestrial silicon cycle. Nature 433:399–402

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Klein T, Joumard I, Blanchard S, et al (2001) A Bragg glass phase in the vortex lattice of a type II superconductor. Nature 413:404–406

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sun B (2016) Multiphase Flow in Oil and Gas Well Drilling. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Möller B (2007) Uncertainty Forecasting in Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

McCune W (2006) Semantic Guidance for Saturation Provers. In: Calmet J, Ida T, Wang D (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation: 8th International Conference, AISC 2006 Beijing, China, September 20-22, 2006 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 18–24

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

Andrew E (2014) Can Magnetically Levitating Trains Run At 3,000km/h? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/can-magnetically-levitating-trains-run-3000kmh/. 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 (1993) Weather Forecasting: Important Issues on Automated Weather Processing System Need Resolution. 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

Sefrit J (2008) A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Hubbard B, Fisher I (2017) President Puts Saudis at Core Of Peace Effort. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prieto 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Digicaylioglu and Lipton 2001; Prieto 2012).

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

Two authors: (Digicaylioglu and Lipton 2001)
Three or more authors: (Klein et al. 2001)

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