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

Kröger, N. (2009). Biochemistry. The molecular basis of nacre formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5946), 1351–1352.

A journal article with 2 authors

Volkman, S. K., & Hartl, D. L. (2003). Parasitology. A game of cat and mouth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 353–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klein, Y., Efrati, E., & Sharon, E. (2007). Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of non-Euclidean metrics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5815), 1116–1120.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Purahong, W., Schloter, M., Pecyna, M. J., Kapturska, D., Däumlich, V., Mital, S., Buscot, F., Hofrichter, M., Gutknecht, J. L. M., & Krüger, D. (2014). Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe. Scientific Reports, 4, 7014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker, S. D., & Nahar, L. (2007). Chemistry for Pharmacy Students. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Mehler, A., Kühnberger, K.-U., Lobin, H., Lüngen, H., Storrer, A., & Witt, A. (Eds.). (2012). Modeling, Learning, and Processing of Text Technological Data Structures (Vol. 370). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Udomsakdigool, A., & Kachitvichyanukul, V. (2008). Multiple-Colony Ant Algorithm with Forward–Backward Scheduling Approach for Job-Shop Scheduling Problem. In A. H. S. Chan & S.-I. Ao (Eds.), Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (pp. 39–55). Springer US.

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. (2014, December 22). Common Painkillers Could Decrease Skin Cancer Risk. 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. (2004). Information Technology Management: Governmentwide Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Can Be Further Improved (GAO-04-49). 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

Parker, E. C. (2010). Perceptions of youth with diabetes and their parents/guardians about youth eating habits and nutrition-related difficulties [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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, July 24). Friday File. New York Times, C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kröger, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kröger, 2009; Volkman & Hartl, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Volkman & Hartl, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Purahong et al., 2014)

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