How to format your references using the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. 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

DeWeerdt, S. (2012). Psychodermatology: An emotional response. Nature, 492(7429), S62-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henney, A., & Superti-Furga, G. (2008). A network solution. Nature, 455(7214), 730–731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yelshanskaya, M. V., Li, M., & Sobolevsky, A. I. (2014). Structure of an agonist-bound ionotropic glutamate receptor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6200), 1070–1074.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dina, C., Meyre, D., Samson, C., Tichet, J., Marre, M., Jouret, B., et al. (2007). Comment on “A common genetic variant is associated with adult and childhood obesity.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5809), 187; author reply 187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee, W. F. (2005). Verilog Coding for Logic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ye, L., Feng, P., & Yue, Q. (Eds.). (2011). Advances in FRP Composites in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2010), Sep 27–29, 2010, Beijing, China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zarrouki, B., Fontés, G., Semache, M., Amyot, J., & Poitout, V. (2014). The Beta Cell in Metabolic Syndrome. In M. Orešič & A. Vidal-Puig (Eds.), A Systems Biology Approach to Study Metabolic Syndrome (pp. 85–109). 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 New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 26). DNA Origami Just Got Better. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dna-origami-just-got-better/. 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. (1990). Implementation of the Technology Transfer Act: A Preliminary Assessment (No. T-PEMD-90-4). 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

Jategaonkar, S. P. (2009). Two essays on stock repurchases and insider trading (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, May 12). Film Series. New York Times, p. C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeWeerdt 2012).
This sentence cites two references (DeWeerdt 2012; Henney and Superti-Furga 2008).

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

Two authors: (Henney and Superti-Furga 2008)
Three or more authors: (Dina et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies
Abbreviation	N. Z.. J. Educ. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0028-8276
ISSN (online)	2199-4714
Scope	Education