How to format your references using the Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science (ERIES). 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

Wilczek, F. (2013) 'Physics: The enigmatic electron', Nature, vol. 498, no. 7452, pp. 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwartz, T. W. and Sakmar, T. P. (2011) 'Structural biology: snapshot of a signalling complex', Nature, vol. 477, no. 7366, pp. 540–541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baker, C. R., Hanson-Smith, V. and Johnson, A. D. (2013) 'Following gene duplication, paralog interference constrains transcriptional circuit evolution', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 342, no. 6154, pp. 104–108.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Valverde, F., Mouradov, A., Soppe, W., Ravenscroft, D., Samach, A. and Coupland, G. (2004) 'Photoreceptor regulation of CONSTANS protein in photoperiodic flowering', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 303, no. 5660, pp. 1003–1006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (1999) Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Casellas, N. and Rubino, R. (ed.) (2008) Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies (Vol. 4884), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Trevanich, S., Sribuathong, S. and Bundidamorn, D. (2016) 'The Potential Health Benefits of Traditional Thai-Fermented Foods and Beverages', In K. Kristbergsson & S. Ötles (Eds.), Functional Properties of Traditional Foods (pp. 39–73), Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, December 31) Europa’s Geysers Are Still Missing, . [Online], Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/still-no-sign-europas-geysers/ [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 (1988) Biotechnology: Managing the Risks of Field Testing Genetically Engineered Organisms (No. RCED-88-27), 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

Fair, C. L. (2012) Structure of the Roberts Mountains allochthon in the Three Bar Ranch Quadrangle, Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada (Doctoral dissertation), California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kinsley, M. (2017, May 27) 'Paid Leave Counts as Progress', New York Times, p. SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Schwartz and Sakmar, 2011; Wilczek, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Schwartz and Sakmar, 2011)
Three authors: (Baker, Hanson-Smith and Johnson, 2013)
6 or more authors: (Valverde et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science
ISSN (print)	2336-2375
ISSN (online)	1803-1617
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