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

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

Kaiser, J. (2000). TOXICOLOGY: Panel Urges Further Study of Biotech Corn. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5498), 1867a.

A journal article with 2 authors

To, T.-L., & Maheshri, N. (2010). Noise can induce bimodality in positive transcriptional feedback loops without bistability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5969), 1142–1145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rapp, R. P., Shimizu, N., & Norman, M. D. (2003). Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite. Nature, 425(6958), 605–609.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Freire, J. G., Cabeza, C., Marti, A., Pöschel, T., & Gallas, J. A. C. (2013). Antiperiodic oscillations. Scientific reports, 3, 1958.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Firth-Cozens, J., & Harrison, J. (2010). How to Survive in Medicine. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Corradini, A., Ehrig, H., Montanari, U., Ribeiro, L., & Rozenberg, G. (Eds.). (2006). Graph Transformations: Third International Conference, ICGT 2006 Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, September 17-23, 2006 Proceedings (Vol. 4178). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Capitelli, M., Colonna, G., & D’Angola, A. (2012). Molecular Partition Function: Vibrational, Rotational and Electronic Contributions. In G. Colonna & A. D’Angola (Eds.), Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Thermodynamics (pp. 79–99). New York, NY: 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 Science Teacher Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 3). Methane-Based Life Forms Could Exist On Titan. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1977). National Science Foundation’s Actions on Recommendations of GAO Report “Opportunities for Improved Management of the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) Program” (No. HRD-77-54). 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

Heyen, C. (2015). Two predictors of smoking behaviors in the LGBTQ population: Anxiety and internalized homophobia (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Billard, M. (2010, July 15). Scouting Report. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kaiser 2000; To and Maheshri 2010).

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

Two authors: (To and Maheshri 2010)
Three or more authors: (Freire et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Science Teacher Education
ISSN (print)	1046-560X
ISSN (online)	1573-1847
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