How to format your references using the Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. 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

Hayflick, L. (2000). New approaches to old age. Nature, 403(6768), 365.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ren, B.-C., & Deng, F.-G. (2014). Hyper-parallel photonic quantum computation with coupled quantum dots. Scientific reports, 4, 4623.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, F., Bakht, S., & Dean, C. (2012). Cotranscriptional role for Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE 4 in transcription termination. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6076), 1621–1623.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Waldo, G. L., Ricks, T. K., Hicks, S. N., Cheever, M. L., Kawano, T., Tsuboi, K., et al. (2010). Kinetic scaffolding mediated by a phospholipase C-beta and Gq signaling complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6006), 974–980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe, W. B. (2010). Modern Grinding Techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ozok, A. A., & Zaphiris, P. (Eds.). (2011). Online Communities and Social Computing: 4th International Conference, OCSC 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6778). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lu, W., Zhan, C., & Hou, H. (2014). Targeted Liposomes and Micelles as Carriers for Cancer Therapy. In M. J. Alonso & M. Garcia-Fuentes (Eds.), Nano-Oncologicals: New Targeting and Delivery Approaches (pp. 95–122). 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 Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 15). 23,000 People In The US End Up In ER Every Year Because Of Supplements. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/23000-people-us-end-er-annually-because-supplements/. 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). Job Corps: Participant Selection and Performance Measurement Need to Be Improved (No. T-HEHS-98-37). 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

Wall, J. D. (2017). The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Otis, J. (2016, December 28). Relying on Strict Regimen to Keep Addiction at Bay. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hayflick 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hayflick 2000; Ren and Deng 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ren and Deng 2014)
Three or more authors: (Waldo et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
ISSN (online)	1793-7078
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