How to format your references using the Teacher Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Teacher Development. 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

Lok, C. 2001. “Smithsonian Head Ruffled by Inquiry.” Nature 412 (6844): 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyd, Philip W., and Douglas Mackie. 2008. “Comment on ‘The Southern Ocean Biological Response to Aeolian Iron Deposition.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5860): 159; author reply 159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abelson, M., G. Baer, and A. Agnon. 2001. “Evidence from Gabbro of the Troodos Ophiolite for Lateral Magma Transport along a Slow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge.” Nature 409 (6816): 72–75.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu, Pu, Xuhui Huang, Ruhong Zhou, and B. J. Berne. 2005. “Observation of a Dewetting Transition in the Collapse of the Melittin Tetramer.” Nature 437 (7055): 159–162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ni, Zhenjiang, Céline Pacoret, Ryad Benosman, and Stéphane Régnier. 2014. Haptic Feedback Teleoperation of Optical Tweezers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Burstow, Bonnie, ed. 2016. Psychiatry Interrogated: An Institutional Ethnography Anthology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Khattab, Ahmed, Dmitri Perkins, and Magdy Bayoumi. 2013. “Opportunistic Spectrum Access Challenges in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks.” In Cognitive Radio Networks: From Theory to Practice, edited by Dmitri Perkins and Magdy Bayoumi, 33–39. New York, NY: 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 Teacher Development.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2017. “Here’s What A Map Of The US Looks Like If You Resize Each State By Population Density.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/heres-what-a-map-of-the-us-looks-like-if-you-resize-each-state-by-population-density/.

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. 2016. K-12 Education: Education’s Experiences with Flexibility Waivers Could Inform Efforts to Assist States with New Requirements. GAO-16-650. 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

Little, Janice Louise. 2014. “The Effects of a Financial Literacy Intervention on Teachers’ Financial Literacy, Awareness, and Advocacy.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Bulkeley, Kelly. 2013. “Data-Mining Our Dreams.” 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 (Lok 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lok 2001; Boyd and Mackie 2008).

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

Two authors: (Boyd and Mackie 2008)
Three authors: (Abelson, Baer, and Agnon 2001)
4 or more authors: (Liu et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Teacher Development
ISSN (print)	1366-4530
ISSN (online)	1747-5120
Scope	Education