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

Holden, C. (2000). DIVERSITY: Parity as a Goal Sparks Bitter Battle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5478), 380.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hirose, T., & Horvitz, H. R. (2013). An Sp1 transcription factor coordinates caspase-dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways. Nature, 500(7462), 354–358.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winkler, W., Nahvi, A., & Breaker, R. R. (2002). Thiamine derivatives bind messenger RNAs directly to regulate bacterial gene expression. Nature, 419(6910), 952–956.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gu, L., Livenere, J. E., Zhu, G., Tumkur, T. U., Hu, H., Cortes, C. L., et al. (2014). Angular distribution of emission from hyperbolic metamaterials. Scientific reports, 4, 7327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burwick, F. (2015). Romanticism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Torra, V., Narukawa, Y., & Inuiguchi, M. (Eds.). (2009). Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence: 6th International Conference, MDAI 2009, Awaji Island, Japan, November 30–December 2, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5861). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cilley, C. (2008). Latin America’s Mixed Views About Globalization, Investments and the United States. In M. Carballo & U. Hjelmar (Eds.), Public Opinion Polling in a Globalized World (pp. 61–76). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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, June 1). Cancer Drugs Help Paralyzed Mice Walk Again. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cancer-drugs-help-paralyzed-mice-walk-again/. 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. (1999). Mass Transit: FTA’s Progress in Developing and Implementing a New Starts Evaluation Process (No. RCED-99-113). 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

Hau, C. C. (2012). Beliefs of nurse practitioner students toward testicular cancer and teaching testicular self-examinations (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Billard, M. (2010, April 29). Feeling Free of All Ties. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Holden 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hirose and Horvitz 2013; Holden 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hirose and Horvitz 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gu 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