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

Gravitz, L. (2014). Liver cancer. Nature, 516(7529), S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koelle, K., & Rasmussen, D. A. (2014). Influenza: Prediction is worth a shot. Nature, 507(7490), 47–48.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bockrath, C., Ballhaus, C., & Holzheid, A. (2004). Fractionation of the platinum-group elements during mantle melting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5692), 1951–1953.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kiel, M. J., He, S., Ashkenazi, R., Gentry, S. N., Teta, M., Kushner, J. A., et al. (2007). Haematopoietic stem cells do not asymmetrically segregate chromosomes or retain BrdU. Nature, 449(7159), 238–242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iyengar, S. S., Parameshwaran, N., Phoha, V. V., Balakrishnan, N., & Okoye, C. D. (2010). Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sun, J.-Q., & Luo, A. C. J. (Eds.). (2012). Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lujak, M., Billhardt, H., & Ossowski, S. (2012). On Mobile Target Allocation with Incomplete Information in Defensive Environments. In G. Jezic, M. Kusek, N.-T. Nguyen, R. J. Howlett, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. Technologies and Applications: 6th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2012,Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 4–13). 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 Science Teacher Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, November 1). Why Men Don’t Need To Be Screened For Breast Cancer, But Should Still Do Regular Checks. 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. (2008). Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges Facing the Agency in Fiscal Year 2009 and Beyond (No. GAO-08-460T). 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

Dusso, A. P. (2010). The psychology of institutional development: How parties’ willingness to accept risk affects the districts they draw and the seats they win (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 14). Versatile Met Tries to Pull a Murphy. New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz 2014; Koelle and Rasmussen 2014).

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

Two authors: (Koelle and Rasmussen 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kiel et al. 2007)

About the journal

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