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

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

Rabitz, Herschel. 2006. “Chemistry. Strong-Arming Molecular Dynamics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5797): 264–265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Etienne, Rampal S., and James Rosindell. 2012. “Comment on ‘Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6089): 1639; author reply 1639.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nosil, Patrik, Bernard J. Crespi, and Cristina P. Sandoval. 2002. “Host-Plant Adaptation Drives the Parallel Evolution of Reproductive Isolation.” Nature 417 (6887): 440–443.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Steidl, Christian, Sohrab P. Shah, Bruce W. Woolcock, Lixin Rui, Masahiro Kawahara, Pedro Farinha, Nathalie A. Johnson, et al. 2011. “MHC Class II Transactivator CIITA Is a Recurrent Gene Fusion Partner in Lymphoid Cancers.” Nature 471 (7338): 377–381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph, Ciby. 2013. Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dincer, Ibrahim. 2013. Solar Based Hydrogen Production Systems. Edited by Anand S. Joshi. SpringerBriefs in Energy. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fulda, Andreas. 2016. “The Logic and Limits of the Party’s Social Management Approach in Maintaining Stability: Lessons from Bismarck.” In China in the Xi Jinping Era, edited by Steve Tsang and Honghua Men, 71–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Education Policy.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Huge Ancient Hidden Monument Found In Petra Using Satellites, Drones, And Google Earth.” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 10. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/huge-ancient-hidden-monument-found-in-petra-using-satellites-drones-and-google-earth/.

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. 2008. Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies Are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions. GAO-08-512R. 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

Clyde, Kevin M. 2012. “Instructors’ Perceptions of the National Association of Schools of Music Influence on the Development of Undergraduate Applied Percussion Curricula.” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Rubin, Alissa J., Patrick Kingsley, and Palko Karasz. 2017. “Attack in Spain Fits Larger Plot.” New York Times, August 18, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rabitz 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rabitz 2006; Etienne and Rosindell 2012).

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

Two authors: (Etienne and Rosindell 2012)
Three authors: (Nosil, Crespi, and Sandoval 2002)
4 or more authors: (Steidl et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Education Policy
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0268-0939
ISSN (online)	1464-5106
Scope	Education