How to format your references using the European Journal of Psychology of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Psychology of Education. 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

Eisenberg, L. (2000). Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000). Nature, 406(6795), 472.

A journal article with 2 authors

Varmus, H., & Harlow, E. (2012). Science funding: Provocative questions in cancer research. Nature, 481(7382), 436–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shalm, L. K., Adamson, R. B. A., & Steinberg, A. M. (2009). Squeezing and over-squeezing of triphotons. Nature, 457(7225), 67–70.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pascolo, L., Gianoncelli, A., Schneider, G., Salomé, M., Schneider, M., Calligaro, C., et al. (2013). The interaction of asbestos and iron in lung tissue revealed by synchrotron-based scanning X-ray microscopy. Scientific reports, 3, 1123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fischer, D. J., Treister, N. S., & Pinto, A. (2013). Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Puzrin, A. M. (2010). Geomechanics of Failures. (E. E. Alonso & N. Pinyol, Eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ratzenhofer-Komenda, B., Favory, R., Welslau, W., Smolle-Jüttner, F. M., & Mathieu, D. (2006). Physiologic Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Oxygen Transport and Tissue Oxygen Pressure. In D. Mathieu (Ed.), Handbook on Hyperbaric Medicine (pp. 49–73). 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 European Journal of Psychology of Education.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, September 8). This Ancient Bug Within A Lizard Within A Snake Will Blow Your Mind. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-ancient-bug-within-a-lizard-within-a-snake-will-blow-your-mind/. 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. (1977). Energy Research and Development Administration’s Accounting System for Accounts Receivable (No. FGMSD-77-25). 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

Qian, J. (2006). Characterization of Transcription-independent APC Tumor Suppressor Function in Apoptosis (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, February 14). These Superheros Come With Lipstick. New York Times, p. ST8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenberg 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenberg 2000; Varmus and Harlow 2012).

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

Two authors: (Varmus and Harlow 2012)
Three or more authors: (Pascolo et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Psychology of Education
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Psychol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0256-2928
ISSN (online)	1878-5174
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education