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

Abbott, A. (2000). CERN claims first experimental creation of quark-gluon plasma. European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Nature, 403(6770), 581.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brubaker, S. W., & Monack, D. M. (2015). IMMUNOLOGY. Microbial metabolite triggers antimicrobial defense. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1207–1208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fashami, M. S., Atulasimha, J., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2013). Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching. Scientific reports, 3, 3204.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Thornton, J. A., Kercher, J. P., Riedel, T. P., Wagner, N. L., Cozic, J., Holloway, J. S., et al. (2010). A large atomic chlorine source inferred from mid-continental reactive nitrogen chemistry. Nature, 464(7286), 271–274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Roeder, T. (2013). Managing Project Stakeholders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bonnelle, C. (2015). Rare-Earths and Actinides in High Energy Spectroscopy. (N. Spector, Ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Amico, S., De Matteis, M., Rousseaux, O., Philips, K., Gyselinck, B., Neirynck, D., & Baschirotto, A. (2010). Ultra Wide Band in Medical Applications. In S. C. Mukhopadhyay & A. Lay-Ekuakille (Eds.), Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems (pp. 43–60). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, September 7). NASA’s Record-Breaking Astronaut Safely Returns To Earth. 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. (2008). Highway Bridge Program: Clearer Goals and Performance Measures Needed for a More Focused and Sustainable Program (No. GAO-08-1127T). 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

Ithier-Guzman, W. (2010). Assessing the ability of soils and sediment to adsorb and retain cesium-137 in Puerto Rico (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Zimmerman, E. (2013, August 16). No Country For Old Men. New York Times, p. MM30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2000; Brubaker and Monack 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brubaker and Monack 2015)
Three or more authors: (Thornton et al. 2010)

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

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