How to format your references using the Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions. 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

Henrich J. Animal behaviour: inequity aversion in capuchins? Nature. 2004 Mar 11;428(6979):139; discussion 140.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zou Z, Buck LB. Combinatorial effects of odorant mixes in olfactory cortex. Science. 2006 Mar 10;311(5766):1477–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang L, Yang N, Li B. Reduction of thermal conductivity by nanoscale 3D phononic crystal. Sci Rep. 2013 Jan 31;3:1143.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chunyu T, Xiujun P, Zhengjun F, Xia Z, Feihu Z. Corneal collagen cross-linking in keratoconus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 10;4:5652.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Uribe S. Frontier Road. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Ratha C. SBAs and EMQs for MRCOG II: Addressing the New Exam Format. 1st ed. 2016. Gupta J, editor. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016. XVI, 461 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kämäräinen JK, Hadid A, Pietikäinen M. Local Representation of Facial Features. In: Li SZ, Jain AK, editors. Handbook of Face Recognition. London: Springer; 2011. p. 79–108.

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 Evaluation for Health Professions.

Blog post

Luntz S. Drug Treats Protein That May Cause Alzheimer’s Disease. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Department of Education: Information Needs Are at the Core of Management Challenges Facing the Department. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: T-HEHS-98-124.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sammons JL. Perceived benefits of and barriers to physical exercise in people with severe mental illness [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Brantley B. Big Dreams and Ideas in Chicago. New York Times. 2017 Mar 14;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Eval. Health Prof.
ISSN (online)	1975-5937
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