How to format your references using the Educational Research for Policy and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Educational Research for Policy and Practice. 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

Gammon, K. (2012). Mathematical modelling: Forecasting cancer. Nature, 491(7425), S66-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogawa, A., & Sommer, R. J. (2009). Developmental biology. Strategies to get arrested. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5955), 944–945.

A journal article with 3 authors

McElwain, J. C., Wagner, P. J., & Hesselbo, S. P. (2009). Fossil plant relative abundances indicate sudden loss of Late Triassic biodiversity in East Greenland. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934), 1554–1556.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shao, S., Wang, J., Misra, A., & Hoagland, R. G. (2013). Spiral patterns of dislocations at nodes in (111) semi-coherent FCC interfaces. Scientific reports, 3, 2448.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay, J., & Tasman, A. (2006). Essentials of Psychiatry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Borsdorf, A. (2015). The Andes: A Geographical Portrait. (C. Stadel, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewko, A., & Waters, B. (2014). Why Proving HIBE Systems Secure Is Difficult. In P. Q. Nguyen & E. Oswald (Eds.), Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2014: 33rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 11-15, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 58–76). 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 Educational Research for Policy and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 11). Why Are Most People Right Handed? The Answer May Be In The Mouths Of Our Ancestors. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-most-people-right-handed-the-answer-may-be-in-the-mouths-of-our-ancestors/. 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. (1988). Space Science: Status of the Hubble Space Telescope Program (No. NSIAD-88-118BR). 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

Lieberman, V. (2012). One yard shy of empowerment: Cinematic portrayals of female athletes (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Gordon, M. R. (2017, August 23). U.S. Urges Iraqi Kurds To Put Off Referendum. New York Times, p. A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gammon 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gammon 2012; Ogawa and Sommer 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ogawa and Sommer 2009)
Three or more authors: (Shao et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Research for Policy and Practice
Abbreviation	Educ. Res. Pol. Pr.
ISSN (print)	1570-2081
ISSN (online)	1573-1723
Scope	Education Sociology and Political Science