How to format your references using the Research Evaluation citation style

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

Steinhardt, P. (2014). ‘Big Bang blunder bursts the multiverse bubble’, Nature, 510/7503: 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rickman, C., & Bickmore, W. A. (2013). ‘Transcription. Flashing a light on the spatial organization of transcription’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 341/6146: 621–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lassus, P., Opitz-Araya, X., & Lazebnik, Y. (2002). ‘Requirement for caspase-2 in stress-induced apoptosis before mitochondrial permeabilization’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 297/5585: 1352–4.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, L., Ye, Y., Lu, X., Wen, Z., Li, Z., Hou, H., & Song, Y. (2013). ‘Hierarchical nanocomposites of polyaniline nanowire arrays on reduced graphene oxide sheets for supercapacitors’, Scientific reports, 3: 3568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaltashov, I. A., & Eyles, S. J. (2005). Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kachapi, S. H. H. (2014). Dynamics and Vibrations: Progress in Nonlinear Analysis. (D. D. Ganji, Ed.)Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, Vol. 202. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrie, R. P., & Kendall, C. J. (2014). ‘Case Study 4 Iris Bombe Around Intraocular Lens Implant’. Kendall C. J. (ed.) Clinical Ophthalmic Echography: A Case Study Approach, pp. 9–9. Springer: New York, NY.

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 Research Evaluation.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). ‘Scientists Find Area Of The Brain That Motivates Us To Exercise’. 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. (1975). Federal Agencies Administering Programs Related to Marine Science Activities and Oceanic Affairs ( No. GGD-75-61). 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

Works, R. F. (2016). Econometric modeling of exchange rate determinants by market classification: An empirical analysis of Japan and South Korea using the sticky-price monetary theory (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2002). ‘World Briefing | Europe: Estonia: New Prime Minister’. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Steinhardt 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rickman & Bickmore 2013; Steinhardt 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rickman & Bickmore 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Evaluation
Abbreviation	Res. Eval.
ISSN (print)	0958-2029
ISSN (online)	1471-5449
Scope	Education Library and Information Sciences