How to format your references using the Studies in Educational Evaluation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in Educational 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

Bland, P. A. (2008). Astronomy. Small-scale observations tell a cosmological story. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 61–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pauluis, O., & Dias, J. (2012). Satellite estimates of precipitation-induced dissipation in the atmosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6071), 953–956.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyer, J. C., Paillet, M., & Roth, S. (2005). Single-molecule torsional pendulum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5740), 1539–1541.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Huber, T. L., Kouskoff, V., Fehling, H. J., Palis, J., & Keller, G. (2004). Haemangioblast commitment is initiated in the primitive streak of the mouse embryo. Nature, 432(7017), 625–630.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Douglas, B. (2008). Achieving Business Success with GIS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lang, K. R. (Ed.). (2006). Sun, Earth and Sky (Second Edition). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Clarke, I. (2013). The Role of Procurement and SGEI After Altmark. In E. Szyszczak & J. W. van de Gronden (Eds.), Financing Services of General Economic Interest: Reform and Modernization (pp. 69–84). T. M. C. Asser Press.

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 Studies in Educational Evaluation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 8). Messenger Spacecraft Detects Ancient Magnetic Field On Mercury. 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. (1987). ADP Budget: Information on Two IRS Computer Projects (IMTEC-87-26FS). 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

Tzillah, A. (2009). The emissions of selected air pollutants from biodiesel fuel usage [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Chira, S., & Martin, J. (2017, January 22). Marchers Map Out Next Steps. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bland, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bland, 2008; Pauluis & Dias, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Pauluis & Dias, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Huber et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in Educational Evaluation
Abbreviation	Stud. Educ. Eval.
ISSN (print)	0191-491X
Scope	Education