How to format your references using the Multilingual Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Multilingual 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

Livingstone, M. S. 2000. Is it warm? Is it real? Or just low spatial frequency? Science (New York, N.Y.) 290: 1299b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ridley, Robert, and Yeya Toure. 2004. Winning the drugs war. Nature 430: 942–943.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, Zigang, Christina W. Hoven, and Allan Rosenfield. 2005. Lessons from the past. Nature 433: 573–574.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Brownell, R. L., Jr, M. F. Tillman, G. N. di Sciara, P. Berggren, and A. J. Read. 2000. Further scrutiny of scientific whaling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290: 1696a.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Concrete and Construction Cl. 2011. Beispiele zur Bemessung Nach Eurocode 2. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Le Thi, Hoai An, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, and Tien Van Do, ed. 2015. Advanced Computational Methods for Knowledge Engineering: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Applications - ICCSAMA 2015. Vol. 358. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mays, Robert W. 2015. Clinical Development of MultiStem® for Treatment of Injuries and Diseases of the Central Nervous System. In Cell Therapy for Brain Injury, ed. David C. Hess, 47–63. 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 Multilingual Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Gene Therapy Offers Fresh Hope to Cystic Fibrosis Sufferers. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 6.

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. 1990. CROSSTALK and Mirror: What’s New Under the CROSSTALK Standard--Part 1. 140678. 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

McCarthy, Audrey C. 2012. Tangle towns tie-breaker: A multidimensional knapsack study. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, Robert L. 2010. Bones of Contention. New York Times, December 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Livingstone 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Livingstone 2000; Ridley and Toure 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ridley and Toure 2004)
Three or more authors: (Brownell et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Multilingual Education
Abbreviation	Multiling. Educ.
ISSN (online)	2191-5059
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