How to format your references using the Race Ethnicity and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Race Ethnicity and 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	Download the output style file
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

Patterson, Walt. 2007. “Fifty Years of Hopes and Fears.” Nature 449 (7163): 664.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herbst, Daniel, and Alexandre Mas. 2015. “Peer Effects on Worker Output in the Laboratory Generalize to the Field.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6260): 545–549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lev, Maria, Oren Yehezkel, and Uri Polat. 2014. “Uncovering Foveal Crowding?” Scientific Reports 4 (February): 4067.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

D’Costa, Vanessa M., Christine E. King, Lindsay Kalan, Mariya Morar, Wilson W. L. Sung, Carsten Schwarz, Duane Froese, et al. 2011. “Antibiotic Resistance Is Ancient.” Nature 477 (7365): 457–461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chang, C. M. 2010. Service Systems Management and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kühn, Oliver, and Ludger Wöste, eds. 2007. Analysis and Control of Ultrafast Photoinduced Reactions. Vol. 87. Chemical Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tan, Rui, and Guoliang Xing. 2014. “Spatiotemporal Coverage in Fusion-Based Sensor Networks.” In The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Volume 2: Advanced Topics and Applications, edited by Habib M. Ammari, 117–165. Signals and Communication Technology. 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 Race Ethnicity and Education.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “Yoshinori Ohsumi – A Deserving Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Physiology Or Medicine.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1989. Transportation Trust Funds. T-RCED-89-36. 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

Wistrom, Chance A. 2017. “Perceptions of School Leaders Regarding the Benefits of Leadership Dashboards.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood University.

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

Swanson, Ana. 2017. “Internal Discord Hinders Trump’s Trade Agenda.” New York Times, October 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patterson 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Patterson 2007; Herbst and Mas 2015).

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

Two authors: (Herbst and Mas 2015)
Three authors: (Lev, Yehezkel, and Polat 2014)
4 or more authors: (D’Costa et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Race Ethnicity and Education
Abbreviation	Race Ethn. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1361-3324
ISSN (online)	1470-109X
Scope	Education Cultural Studies Demography