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

Holmes, E. C. (2004). Virology. 1918 and all that. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5665), 1787–1788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herrera, A. M., & Cohn, M. J. (2014). Embryonic origin and compartmental organization of the external genitalia. Scientific reports, 4, 6896.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, X., Zhou, Y., & Xiao, M. (2013). Entangler via electromagnetically induced transparency with an atomic ensemble. Scientific reports, 3, 3479.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fichot, C. G., Kaiser, K., Hooker, S. B., Amon, R. M. W., Babin, M., Bélanger, S., et al. (2013). Pan-Arctic distributions of continental runoff in the Arctic Ocean. Scientific reports, 3, 1053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartley, T. (2011). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kloeden, P. E., & Pötzsche, C. (Eds.). (2013). Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems in the Life Sciences (Vol. 2102). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehling, H., & Cabeza, L. F. (2008). Design of latent heat storages. In L. F. Cabeza (Ed.), Heat and cold storage with PCM: An up to date introduction into basics and applications (pp. 137–179). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Hale, T. (2016, August 8). We Have Already Used Up This Year’s Supply Of Natural Resources. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1997). FCC: Ka-Band Satellite Application and Licensing Procedure (No. OGC-98-15). 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

Banks, G. M. (2009). The revolution will not be gender-ized (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

Kelly, T. (2000, April 16). FOLLOWING UP. New York Times, p. 135.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holmes 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Herrera and Cohn 2014; Holmes 2004).

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

Two authors: (Herrera and Cohn 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fichot et al. 2013)

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