How to format your references using the South African Journal of Childhood Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for South African Journal of Childhood Education (SAJCE). 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., 2001, ‘Concern raised for missing biologist’, Nature, 414(6863), 475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuwayama, H. & Ishida, S., 2013, ‘Biological soliton in multicellular movement’, Scientific reports, 3, 2272.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pyenson, N.D., Irmis, R.B. & Lipps, J.H., 2010, ‘Comment on “Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales”’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6001), 178; author reply 178.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Najman, Y., Pringle, M., Godin, L. & Oliver, G., 2001, ‘Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin’, Nature, 410(6825), 194–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esch, G.W., 2015, Ecological Parasitology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

R, T.M.D. & A, C.M.G. (eds.), 2014, Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians, vol. 1, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Nähler, H.T. & Gronauer, B., 2016, ‘Using Enhanced Nested Function Models for Strategic Product Development’, in L. Chechurin (ed.), Research and Practice on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ): Linking Creativity, Engineering and Innovation, pp. 55–75, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 South African Journal of Childhood Education.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017, SpaceX’s Next Rocket Will Liftoff From A Historic Former Space Shuttle Launch Pad, 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, 2008, Information Technology: VA Has Taken Important Steps to Centralize Control of Its Resources, but Effectiveness Depends on Additional Planned Actions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sindel, J., 2013, Vulnerability towards disordered eating in students registered in general education nutrition classes – PhD thesis, 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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2017, 24 Years Later, DNA Leads To Arrest in Attack on Girl, New York Times, p. A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2001; Kuwayama & Ishida 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kuwayama & Ishida 2013)
Three or more authors: (Najman et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	South African Journal of Childhood Education
ISSN (print)	2223-7674
ISSN (online)	2223-7682
Scope