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

Gavaghan, H. 2000. “New UK Legislation Aids Fight against Discrimination.” Nature 405 (6787): 716–717.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horvath, Philippe, and Rodolphe Barrangou. 2010. “CRISPR/Cas, the Immune System of Bacteria and Archaea.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5962): 167–170.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ammon, Charles J., Hiroo Kanamori, and Thorne Lay. 2008. “A Great Earthquake Doublet and Seismic Stress Transfer Cycle in the Central Kuril Islands.” Nature 451 (7178): 561–565.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sanford, Eric, Melissa S. Roth, Glenn C. Johns, John P. Wares, and George N. Somero. 2003. “Local Selection and Latitudinal Variation in a Marine Predator-Prey Interaction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5622): 1135–1137.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Likhtenshtein, Gertz. 2012. Solar Energy Conversion. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Crespi Reghizzi, Stefano. 2013. Formal Languages and Compilation. Edited by Luca Breveglieri and Angelo Morzenti. 2nd ed. 2013. Texts in Computer Science. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Valocchi, Albert J. 2012. “Hydrogeochemical Models.” In Delivery and Mixing in the Subsurface: Processes and Design Principles for In Situ Remediation, edited by Peter K. Kitanidis and Perry L. McCarty, 77–116. SERDP/ESTCP Environmental Remediation Technology. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Resurgent Pine Martens Could Be Good News For Red Squirrels.” 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. FBI: Advanced Communications Technologies Pose Wiretapping Challenges. IMTEC-92-68BR. 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

Boyer, Grant Coday. 2012. “Best Practices for Student Success on the ACT.” 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

Chaban, Matt A. V. 2014. “Gefilte Fish Is Scarce This Passover. Taste Buds Are Ambivalent.” New York Times, April 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gavaghan 2000; Horvath and Barrangou 2010).

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

Two authors: (Horvath and Barrangou 2010)
Three authors: (Ammon, Kanamori, and Lay 2008)
4 or more authors: (Sanford et al. 2003)

About the journal

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