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

Montgomery, S. L. (2001) 'Newton in Japan', Nature, vol. 411, no. 6833, pp. 25.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nahrendorf, M. and Swirski, F. K. (2015) 'Immunology. Neutrophil-macrophage communication in inflammation and atherosclerosis', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 349, no. 6245, pp. 237–238.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitmore, D., Foulkes, N. S. and Sassone-Corsi, P. (2000) 'Light acts directly on organs and cells in culture to set the vertebrate circadian clock', Nature, vol. 404, no. 6773, pp. 87–91.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shinya, K., Ebina, M., Yamada, S., Ono, M., Kasai, N. and Kawaoka, Y. (2006) 'Avian flu: influenza virus receptors in the human airway', Nature, vol. 440, no. 7083, pp. 435–436.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zeng, K., Lou, W. and Li, M. (2011) Multihop Wireless Networks, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sachithanadam, M. (2016) Silica Aerogel Composites: Novel Fabrication Methods (S. C. Joshi, Ed.), Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Savoia, C. and Schiffrin, E. L. (2015) 'Vascular Changes in the Microcirculation: Arterial Remodeling and Capillary Rarefaction', In A. Berbari & G. Mancia (Eds.), Arterial Disorders: Definition, Clinical Manifestations, Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches (pp. 69–79), 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

Andrew, E. (2015, January 7) Some Creatures Use Electricity And Vibrations In Sex (And This Can Be Dangerous), . [Online], Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-creatures-use-electricity-and-vibrations-sex-and-can-be-dangerous/ [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) Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (No. GAO-08-440), 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

Revzin, N. T. (2010) From selling rags to wearing riches: German Jews’ economic progress in the first half of the nineteenth century (Doctoral dissertation), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Danforth, J., Hart, G., Billington, J. H., Simpson, A. K., McGOVERN, G., Kettmann, S., … Chafee, L. (2010, June 29) 'Robert Byrd, Living History', New York Times, p. A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Montgomery, 2001; Nahrendorf and Swirski, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nahrendorf and Swirski, 2015)
Three authors: (Whitmore, Foulkes and Sassone-Corsi, 2000)
6 or more authors: (Shinya et al., 2006)

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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