How to format your references using the The Australian Educational Researcher citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Australian Educational Researcher. 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

Yan, H. (2004). Materials science. Nucleic acid nanotechnology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5704), 2048–2049.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eldar, A., & Elowitz, M. B. (2010). Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits. Nature, 467(7312), 167–173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hodge, A., Campbell, C. D., & Fitter, A. H. (2001). An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus accelerates decomposition and acquires nitrogen directly from organic material. Nature, 413(6853), 297–299.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, X., Xiang, W., Jiao, X., Zhang, Y., Xie, W., Wu, Q., et al. (2014). Effects of plant virus and its insect vector on Encarsia formosa, a biocontrol agent of whiteflies. Scientific reports, 4, 5926.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richter, D. H. (2017). Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Harris, J. (2008). Combinatorics and Graph Theory. (J. L. Hirst & M. Mossinghoff, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

McCluggage, W. G. (2014). Other Neoplasms of the Cervix. In J. Tidy & J. H. F. Smith (Eds.), Cellular Pathology of Glandular Lesions and Uncommon Neoplasms of the Cervix (pp. 113–133). London: 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 The Australian Educational Researcher.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 11). Brains Can Make Decisions While We Sleep – Here They Are In Action. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1977). Questions Persist about Federal Support for Development of Curriculum Materials and Behavior Modification Techniques Used in Local Schools (No. HRD-77-49). 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

Samble, J. N. (2017). Persistence and Advancement in NCAA Division I: Lived Experiences of Female Athletic Administrators (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, May 27). DeGrom Goes Where No Mets Starter Has This Year: The 9th Inning. New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yan 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Eldar and Elowitz 2010; Yan 2004).

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

Two authors: (Eldar and Elowitz 2010)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Australian Educational Researcher
Abbreviation	Aust. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	0311-6999
ISSN (online)	2210-5328
Scope	Education