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

Stocker, T. F. (2013). Climate change. The closing door of climate targets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6117), 280–282.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pagès, V., & Fuchs, R. P. (2003). Uncoupling of leading- and lagging-strand DNA replication during lesion bypass in vivo. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5623), 1300–1303.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, X., Han, F., & Zhao, Q. (2014). Homologies and homeotic transformation of the theropod “semilunate” carpal. Scientific reports, 4, 6042.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Menuz, V., Howell, K. S., Gentina, S., Epstein, S., Riezman, I., Fornallaz-Mulhauser, M., et al. (2009). Protection of C. elegans from anoxia by HYL-2 ceramide synthase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5925), 381–384.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dewulf, G., Blanken, A., & Bult-Spiering, M. (2012). Strategic Issues in Public-Private Partnerships. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Witelski, T. (2015). Methods of Mathematical Modelling: Continuous Systems and Differential Equations. (M. Bowen, Ed.) (1st ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Roller, K. (2016). Corporate Mobility: When and Why Does it Become a Burden? In G. Wulfhorst & S. Klug (Eds.), Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions: Insights from Interdisciplinary Research for Practice Application (pp. 65–82). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, October 18). These Are The World’s Most Empathetic Countries. 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. (2010). Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in Continuity Planning and Involvement of Key Users (No. GAO-10-799). 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

Nikolova, S. (2010). Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Gregory Mankiw, N., & Summers, L. H. (2015, October 24). Uniting Behind a Divisive Health Tax. New York Times, p. BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Pagès and Fuchs 2003; Stocker 2013).

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

Two authors: (Pagès and Fuchs 2003)
Three or more authors: (Menuz et al. 2009)

About the journal

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