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

McNally, E. M. (2012) 'Genetics: broken giant linked to heart failure', Nature, vol. 483, no. 7389, pp. 281–282.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gardner, B. M. and Walter, P. (2011) 'Unfolded proteins are Ire1-activating ligands that directly induce the unfolded protein response', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 333, no. 6051, pp. 1891–1894.

A journal article with 3 authors

Healy, L. L., Cronin, J. G. and Sheldon, I. M. (2014) 'Endometrial cells sense and react to tissue damage during infection of the bovine endometrium via interleukin 1', Scientific Reports, vol. 4, pp. 7060.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wilson, A. M., Hubel, T. Y., Wilshin, S. D., Lowe, J. C., Lorenc, M., Dewhirst, O. P., … West, T. G. (2018) 'Biomechanics of predator-prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala', Nature, vol. 554, no. 7691, pp. 183–188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick, V. J., Jr, Mckinney, J. D. and Williams, K. J. (2015) FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Teichler, U. and Cummings, W. K. (ed.) (2015) Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession (Vol. 14), Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kireyev, D. and Hung, J. (2016) 'Valvular Pathology', In D. Kireyev & J. Hung (Eds.), Cardiac Imaging in Clinical Practice (pp. 51–72), Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrews, R. (2017, June 7) The Asgardia ‘Space Nation’ Team Will Reveal Their Plans To The World Next Week, . [Online], Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/asgardia-space-nation-team-reveal-plans-world-next-week/ [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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness Status of the Department of Health and Human Services (No. T-AIMD-99-92), 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

Fletcher, B. (2017) Tropes of Dis/Ableism as Flexible Stigma: Examining Brenda Connors’ 2008 Report as an Instance of Dis/Ableist Polemical Rhetoric (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

Chira, S. (2016, December 10) 'Protests Carry Echoes of South Korea’s Past', New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNally, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gardner and Walter, 2011; McNally, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Gardner and Walter, 2011)
Three authors: (Healy, Cronin and Sheldon, 2014)
6 or more authors: (Wilson et al., 2018)

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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