How to format your references using the Evaluation and Program Planning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evaluation and Program Planning. 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

Abbott, A. (2003). Anthropologists cast doubt on human DNA evidence. Nature, 423(6939), 468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Santen, L., & Krauth, W. (2000). Absence of thermodynamic phase transition in a model glass former. Nature, 405(6786), 550–551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mennill, D. J., Ratcliffe, L. M., & Boag, P. T. (2002). Female eavesdropping on male song contests in songbirds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5569), 873.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Nakajima, M., Imai, K., Ito, H., Nishiwaki, T., Murayama, Y., Iwasaki, H., Oyama, T., & Kondo, T. (2005). Reconstitution of circadian oscillation of cyanobacterial KaiC phosphorylation in vitro. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5720), 414–415.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rittereiser, C. M., & Kochard, L. E. (2010). Top Hedge Fund Investors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bini, C., & Bech, J. (Eds.). (2014). PHEs, Environment and Human Health: Potentially harmful elements in the environment and the impact on human health. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Jang, J.-B., Lee, H.-P., Hwang, K.-M., & Song, Y.-C. (2011). Prediction of Prestress Force on Grouted Tendon by Experimental Modal Analysis. In T. Proulx (Ed.), Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 28th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2010 (pp. 33–39). 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 Evaluation and Program Planning.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, August 20). Wormhole Illusion Causes Magnetic Field To Move Through Space Undetected. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/wormhole-illusion-experiment-causes-magnetic-field-disappear-and-reappear/

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. (2007). Digital Television Transition: Questions on the DTV Converter Box Subsidy Program and a DTV Inter-Agency Task Force (GAO-08-297R). 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

Zhang, H. (2008). Studies of Zeolite-Based Artificial Photosynthetic Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005, February 5). Russian Legislators Vote to Condemn Anti-Semitism. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Santen & Krauth, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Santen & Krauth, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Nakajima et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evaluation and Program Planning
Abbreviation	Eval. Program Plann.
ISSN (print)	0149-7189
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Social Psychology Geography, Planning and Development