How to format your references using the Teaching Education citation style

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

Mawet, D. (2015). PLANETARY SCIENCE. Eyeing up a Jupiter-like exoplanet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6256), 39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reysenbach, A.-L., & Shock, E. (2002). Merging genomes with geochemistry in hydrothermal ecosystems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 1077–1082.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buehler, M. J., Abraham, F. F., & Gao, H. (2003). Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale. Nature, 426(6963), 141–146.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lanyon, B. P., Hempel, C., Nigg, D., Müller, M., Gerritsma, R., Zähringer, F., Schindler, P., Barreiro, J. T., Rambach, M., Kirchmair, G., Hennrich, M., Zoller, P., Blatt, R., & Roos, C. F. (2011). Universal digital quantum simulation with trapped ions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6052), 57–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vincoli, J. W. (2014). Basic Guide to System Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Makhlouf, A., Paal, E., Silvestrov, S. D., & Stolin, A. (Eds.). (2014). Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics: AGMP, Mulhouse, France, October 2011 (Vol. 85). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cho, H.-S., Han, Q.-F., Kim, H.-G., & Kim, J. Y. (2016). Receiver-Based Adaptive Signal Control for Enhancing VoIP Speech Quality. In K. J. Kim, N. Wattanapongsakorn, & N. Joukov (Eds.), Mobile and Wireless Technologies 2016 (pp. 35–39). 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 Teaching Education.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 16). How We Solved The 1,000-Year-Old Mystery Of The Druze People’s Origin – With A Genetic Sat Nav. 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. (2017). 2015 Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake Rule: Comparison of DOT Forecasts for Selected Data Points for 2015 and 2016 to Preliminary Data for Those Years (GAO-17-567R). 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

van der Steen, R. (2015). Intended infidelity: Male-female differences in intention-behavior congruence and the relative prediction power of gender, relationship and individual difference variables [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Pilon, M. (2014, June 22). Eat, Stretch, Turn Off Your Cellphone. New York Times, TR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mawet, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Mawet, 2015; Reysenbach & Shock, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Reysenbach & Shock, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lanyon et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Teaching Education
Abbreviation	Teach. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1047-6210
ISSN (online)	1470-1286
Scope	Education