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

Kerridge, J. F. (2001). Isotopic variability of nitrogen in lunar regolith. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5537), 1947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spaldin, N. A., & Fiebig, M. (2005). Materials science. The renaissance of magnetoelectric multiferroics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5733), 391–392.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hummer, G., Rasaiah, J. C., & Noworyta, J. P. (2001). Water conduction through the hydrophobic channel of a carbon nanotube. Nature, 414(6860), 188–190.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Oh, P., Li, Y., Yu, J., Durr, E., Krasinska, K. M., Carver, L. A., et al. (2004). Subtractive proteomic mapping of the endothelial surface in lung and solid tumours for tissue-specific therapy. Nature, 429(6992), 629–635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saksena, F. B. (2008). Color Atlas of Local and Systemic Signs of Cardiovascular Disease. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Capogna, L. (2014). Fully Nonlinear PDEs in Real and Complex Geometry and Optics: Cetraro, Italy 2012, Editors: Cristian E. Gutiérrez, Ermanno Lanconelli. (P. Guan, C. E. Gutiérrez, & A. Montanari, Eds.) (Vol. 2087). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Peters, J. F., & Ramanna, S. (2008). Feature Selection: Near Set Approach. In Z. W. Raś, S. Tsumoto, & D. Zighed (Eds.), Mining Complex Data: ECML/PKDD 2007 Third International Workshop, MCD 2007, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 57–71). 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

Fang, J. (2014, December 20). Crows Can Understand Analogies. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crows-understand-analogies/. 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. (2004). Student Mentoring Programs: Education’s Monitoring and Information Sharing Could Be Improved (No. GAO-04-581). 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

Kostenbader, T. C. (2015). Analyzing students’ attitudes towards science during inquiry-based lessons (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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 22). With a Final Shot, the Mets Are Denied as the Braves Snatch a Sweep. New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerridge 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kerridge 2001; Spaldin and Fiebig 2005).

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

Two authors: (Spaldin and Fiebig 2005)
Three or more authors: (Oh et al. 2004)

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