How to format your references using the British Journal of Educational Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Educational Psychology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Tidwell, L. (2004). Scientists and societies. First, find your postdocs. Nature, 428(6983), 678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shindo, A., & Wallingford, J. B. (2014). PCP and septins compartmentalize cortical actomyosin to direct collective cell movement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6171), 649–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fry, S. N., Sayaman, R., & Dickinson, M. H. (2003). The aerodynamics of free-flight maneuvers in Drosophila. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5618), 495–498.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yin, L., Wu, L., Wesche, H., Arthur, C. D., White, J. M., Goeddel, D. V., & Schreiber, R. D. (2001). Defective lymphotoxin-beta receptor-induced NF-kappaB transcriptional activity in NIK-deficient mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5511), 2162–2165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou, C. (2013). Design and Analysis of Composite Structures. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Lech, M., Song, I., Yellowlees, P., & Diederich, J. (Eds.). (2014). Mental Health Informatics (Vol. 491). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Guicciardi, M. E., & Gores, G. J. (2009). The Death Receptor Pathway. In Z. Dong & X.-M. Yin (Eds.), Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research (pp. 119–150). Humana Press.

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 British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015, November 13). Astronomers Witness Cosmic Fender Bender In The Asteroid Belt. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-impact-snapped-astronomers/

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. (2009). Proprietary Schools: Stronger Department of Education Oversight Needed to Help Ensure Only Eligible Students Receive Federal Student Aid (GAO-09-600). 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

Al khuwaildi, H. A. (2010). Green techniques in the healthcare system [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

Barron, J. (2017, July 21). After Election, More New Yorkers Are Telling Volunteer Groups, ‘I Can Help.’ New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tidwell, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Shindo & Wallingford, 2014; Tidwell, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Shindo & Wallingford, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Educational Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Educ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0007-0998
ISSN (online)	2044-8279
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education