How to format your references using the Education Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Education Economics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lu, Shunwen. 2014. “Zn2+ Blocks Annealing of Complementary Single-Stranded DNA in a Sequence-Selective Manner.” Scientific Reports 4 (June 2014): 5464.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joly, Pierre-Benoit, and Arie Rip. 2007. “A Timely Harvest.” Nature 450 (7167): 174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Averill, Colin, Benjamin L. Turner, and Adrien C. Finzi. 2014. “Mycorrhiza-Mediated Competition between Plants and Decomposers Drives Soil Carbon Storage.” Nature 505 (7484): 543–545.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gerber, Sabina, Mireia Comellas-Bigler, Birke A. Goetz, and Kaspar P. Locher. 2008. “Structural Basis of Trans-Inhibition in a Molybdate/Tungstate ABC Transporter.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5886): 246–250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gilhus, Nils Erik, Michael P. Barnes, and Michael Brainin. 2010. European Handbook of Neurological Management. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Cherifi, Hocine, Bruno Gonçalves, Ronaldo Menezes, and Roberta Sinatra, eds. 2016. Complex Networks VII: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2016. 1st ed. 2016. Vol. 644. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fragiskos, F. D. 2007. “Equipment, Instruments, and Materials.” In Oral Surgery, edited by Fragiskos D. Fragiskos, 43–72. 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 Education Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2016. “Decriminalise Use Of Medical Marijuana And Legalise Small-Scale Cultivation.” IFLScience, IFLScience, September 17. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/decriminalise-use-of-medical-marijuana-and-legalise-smallscale-cultivation/.

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. Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development. T-RCED-99-84. 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

Slotnick, Adam. 2012. “Status Symbols in Triathlete Culture.” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. 2004. “World Briefing | Middle East: Qatar: Death Sought For Russians.” New York Times, June 9, 2004.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lu 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lu 2014; Joly and Rip 2007).

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

Two authors: (Joly and Rip 2007)
Three authors: (Averill, Turner, and Finzi 2014)
4 or more authors: (Gerber et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Education Economics
Abbreviation	Educ. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0964-5292
ISSN (online)	1469-5782
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Education