How to format your references using the Studies in Continuing Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in Continuing 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	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

Hirschmann, Marc M. 2009. “Geochemistry. Ironing out the Oxidation of Earth’s Mantle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5940): 545–546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wardle, David A., and Björn D. Lindahl. 2014. “Ecology. Disentangling Global Soil Fungal Diversity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6213): 1052–1053.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mohn, Fabio, Dominik Handler, and Julius Brennecke. 2015. “Noncoding RNA. PiRNA-Guided Slicing Specifies Transcripts for Zucchini-Dependent, Phased PiRNA Biogenesis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6236): 812–817.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Scott, Fiona L., Boguslaw Stec, Cristina Pop, Małgorzata K. Dobaczewska, Jeongeun J. Lee, Edward Monosov, Howard Robinson, Guy S. Salvesen, Robert Schwarzenbacher, and Stefan J. Riedl. 2009. “The Fas-FADD Death Domain Complex Structure Unravels Signalling by Receptor Clustering.” Nature 457 (7232): 1019–1022.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carroll, Noël. 2013. Minerva’s Night Out. Oxford: A John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Lin, Song, and Xiong Huang, eds. 2011. Advanced Research on Computer Education, Simulation and Modeling: International Conference, CESM 2011, Wuhan, China, June 18-19, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 175. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pickard, Todd. 2016. “The Administrative Process: Credentialing, Privileges, and Maintenance of Certification.” In Interventional Critical Care: A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners, edited by Dennis A. Taylor, Scott P. Sherry, and Ronald F. Sing, 25–30. 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 Studies in Continuing Education.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Finland Set To Ban All Coal Use By 2030.” 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. 1992. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Justify Further Investment in Its Oceanic Display System. IMTEC-92-80. 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

Gittens, Brian E. 2009. “Perceptions of the Applicability of Transformational Leadership Behavior to the Leader Role of Academic Department Chairs: A Study of Selected Universities in Virginia.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Shear, Michael D., and Brad Plumer. 2017. “Trump Has Choice to Make Between Science and His Base.” New York Times, August 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hirschmann 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hirschmann 2009; Wardle and Lindahl 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wardle and Lindahl 2014)
Three authors: (Mohn, Handler, and Brennecke 2015)
4 or more authors: (Scott et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in Continuing Education
Abbreviation	Stud. Contin. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0158-037X
ISSN (online)	1470-126X
Scope	Education