How to format your references using the Educational Psychology Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Educational Psychology Review. 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

Woodhead, J. (2015). Earth science: Mixing it up in the mantle. Nature, 517(7534), 275–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ochman, H., & Davalos, L. M. (2006). The nature and dynamics of bacterial genomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5768), 1730–1733.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai, S., Xu, Q., & Qin, Y. (2013). Vibration driven vehicle inspired from grass spike. Scientific reports, 3, 1851.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gupta, R., Kim, J. Y., Espinal, M. A., Caudron, J. M., Pecoul, B., Farmer, P. E., & Raviglione, M. C. (2001). Public health. Responding to market failures in tuberculosis control. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1049–1051.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schoukens, J., Pintelon, R., & Rolain, Y. (2012). Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Koutsojannis, C., & Sirmakessis, S. (Eds.). (2009). Tools and Applications with Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 166). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Isselmou, Y. O., Wackernagel, H., Tabbara, W., & Wiart, J. (2008). Geostatistical Estimation of Electromagnetic Exposure. In A. Soares, M. J. Pereira, & R. Dimitrakopoulos (Eds.), geoENV VI – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications (pp. 59–70). 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 Educational Psychology Review.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016, September 16). Don’t Ignore Other Indicators Of Alzheimer’s, Study Warns. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dont-ignore-other-indicators-of-alzheimers-study-warns/. 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. (2006). Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan (No. GAO-06-863T). 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

Pope, C. (2010). Words in the Garden (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Saslow, L. (2008, October 5). Rebate Checks to Lose Their Punch This Year. New York Times, p. LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Woodhead 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ochman and Davalos 2006; Woodhead 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ochman and Davalos 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gupta et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Psychology Review
Abbreviation	Educ. Psychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1040-726X
ISSN (online)	1573-336X
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology