How to format your references using the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 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

Ellman, J. A. (2007). Chemistry. The direct approach. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5828), 1131–1132.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sommer, M. A., & Wurtz, R. H. (2002). A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1480–1482.

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell, K. I., Chase, J. M., & Knight, T. M. (2013). Invasive plants have scale-dependent effects on diversity by altering species-area relationships. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6117), 316–318.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wu, J., Xu, J., Liu, B., Yao, G., Wang, P., Lin, Z., Huang, B., Wang, X., Li, T., Shi, S., Zhang, N., Duan, F., Ming, J., Zhang, X., Niu, W., Song, W., Jin, H., Guo, Y., Dai, S., … Sun, Y. (2018). Chromatin analysis in human early development reveals epigenetic transition during ZGA. Nature, 557(7704), 256–260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boero, R. (2015). Behavioral Computational Social Science. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wiederhold, B. K. (2014). Advances in Virtual Reality and Anxiety Disorders (S. Bouchard, Ed.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Illuminati, G. (2013). Transnational Inquiries in Criminal Matters and Respect for Fair Trial Guarantees. In S. Ruggeri (Ed.), Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Criminal Proceedings: A Study in Memory of Vittorio Grevi and Giovanni Tranchina (pp. 15–24). 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 Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, May 26). New Species Of Pliosaur Discovered In Russia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-of-pliosaur-discovered-in-russia/

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). Reports Issued in July 1988 (136598). 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

VanQuickenborne, T. (2010). Exploring generative change [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Feeney, K. (2008, April 13). Pancakes: Yours, Any Of 100 Ways. New York Times, NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ellman, 2007; Sommer & Wurtz, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sommer & Wurtz, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Behav. Stat.
ISSN (print)	1076-9986
ISSN (online)	1935-1054
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Education