How to format your references using the Oxford Review of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oxford Review 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	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

Clayton, J. (2010). The promise of T. cruzi genomics. Nature, 465(7301), S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hutchinson, J. R., & Garcia, M. (2002). Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner. Nature, 415(6875), 1018–1021.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe, Y., Farquhar, J., & Ohmoto, H. (2009). Anomalous fractionations of sulfur isotopes during thermochemical sulfate reduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5925), 370–373.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhou, J.-J., Feng, W., Zhang, Y., Yang, S. A., & Yao, Y. (2014). Engineering topological surface states and giant Rashba spin splitting in BiTeI/Bi2Te3 heterostructures. Scientific Reports, 4, 3841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, D., & Lannoo, K. (2004). The Euro Capital Market. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tai, X.-C., Bae, E., Chan, T. F., & Lysaker, M. (Eds.). (2015). Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10th International Conference, EMMCVPR 2015, Hong Kong, China, January 13-16, 2015. Proceedings (Vol. 8932). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Yairi, I. E., Kayama, K., & Igi, S. (2007). Robotic Communication Terminals as a Ubiquitous System for Improving Human Mobility by Making Environment Virtually Barrier-Free. In A. Sakurai, K. Hasida, & K. Nitta (Eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004 Conferences and Workshops, Niigata, Japan, June 23-27, 2003 and Kanazawa, Japan, May 31 - June 4, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 61–75). 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 Oxford Review of Education.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, November 21). Scientists Can Now Erase Specific Fears From Your Brain. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2017). 2015 Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake Rule: Comparison of DOT Forecasts for Selected Data Points for 2015 and 2016 to Preliminary Data for Those Years (GAO-17-567R). 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

Voma, S. K. (2017). Design of Power Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting Applications [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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. (2017, May 11). Marriage, That Cozy Battlefield. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clayton, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Clayton, 2010; Hutchinson & Garcia, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hutchinson & Garcia, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oxford Review of Education
Abbreviation	Oxf. Rev. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0305-4985
ISSN (online)	1465-3915
Scope	Education