How to format your references using the Tertiary Education and Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tertiary Education and Management. 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

Menzel, D. (2002). Surface science. Water on a metal surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5552), 58–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tan, S., & Lü, J. (2014). Characterizing the effect of population heterogeneity on evolutionary dynamics on complex networks. Scientific Reports, 4, 5034.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sword, G. A., Lorch, P. D., & Gwynne, D. T. (2005). Insect behaviour: migratory bands give crickets protection. Nature, 433(7027), 703.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ramachandran, N., Hainsworth, E., Bhullar, B., Eisenstein, S., Rosen, B., Lau, A. Y., Walter, J. C., & LaBaer, J. (2004). Self-assembling protein microarrays. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5680), 86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wubbolding, R. E. (2017). Reality Therapy and Self-Evaluation. American Counseling Association.

An edited book

Knobloch, P. (Ed.). (2015). Boundary and Interior Layers, Computational and Asymptotic Methods - BAIL 2014 (Vol. 108). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bürgermeister, M. (2012). Innovation Process: Flexible, Open, Non-linear. In F. Böhle, M. Bürgermeister, & S. Porschen (Eds.), Innovation Management by Promoting the Informal: Artistic, Experience-based, Playful (pp. 41–62). 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 Tertiary Education and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 14). There Probably Won’t Be A “Mini Ice Age” In 15 Years. 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. (1995). International Aviation: Better Data on Code-Sharing Needed by DOT for Monitoring and Decisionmaking (T-RCED-95-170). 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

Jernigan, M. B. (2013). Use of uprooted invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare ) parent plants as thatch to reduce progeny seedling emergence [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Sisario, B., & Alter, A. (2016, October 17). Ever Reticent, Nobel Laureate Dylan Maintains Silence. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Menzel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Menzel, 2002; Tan & Lü, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tan & Lü, 2014)
Three authors: (Sword et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Ramachandran et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tertiary Education and Management
Abbreviation	Tert. Educ. Manag.
ISSN (print)	1358-3883
ISSN (online)	1573-1936
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Education