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

Bréon, F.-M. (2006). Climate. How do aerosols affect cloudiness and climate? Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 623–624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drain, P. K., & Barry, M. (2010). Global health. Fifty years of U.S. embargo: Cuba’s health outcomes and lessons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5978), 572–573.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pobbati, A. V., Stein, A., & Fasshauer, D. (2006). N- to C-terminal SNARE complex assembly promotes rapid membrane fusion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 673–676.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kassen, R., Buckling, A., Bell, G., & Rainey, P. B. (2000). Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm. Nature, 406(6795), 508–512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Owen, J. S., & Fiedler-Kelly, J. (2014). Introduction to Population Pharmacokinetic / Pharmacodynamic Analysis with Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jøsang, A., Samarati, P., & Petrocchi, M. (Eds.). (2013). Security and Trust Management: 8th International Workshop, STM 2012, Pisa, Italy, September 13-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7783). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Allinson, R. (2011). The Ethical Producer. In L. Zsolnai (Ed.), Spirituality and Ethics in Management (pp. 53–73). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Hamilton, K. (2016, August 16). Sea Anemone Proteins Could Help Reverse Hearing Loss In Humans. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sea-anemone-proteins-could-help-reverse-hearing-loss-in-humans/. 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. (1989). Federal Research: The SEMATECH Consortium’s Start-up Activities (No. RCED-90-37). 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

Jensen, M. E. (2010). A comparison of school psychologists’ and school counselors’ ability to identify cognitive abilities underlying basic academic tasks (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Thomas, K. (2011, July 17). Ready to Take a Faithful Leap. New York Times, p. ST6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bréon 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bréon 2006; Drain and Barry 2010).

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

Two authors: (Drain and Barry 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kassen et al. 2000)

About the journal

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