How to format your references using the British Journal of Educational Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Educational Psychology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Harmon, L. (2010). Journal club. An evolutionary biologist ponders the pace of evolution. Nature, 463(7284), 1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurao, N. P., & Suwas, S. (2014). Generalized scaling of misorientation angle distributions at meso-scale in deformed materials. Scientific Reports, 4, 5641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Armbrecht, I., Perfecto, I., & Vandermeer, J. (2004). Enigmatic biodiversity correlations: ant diversity responds to diverse resources. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 284–286.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schulz, K. G., Zondervan, I., Gerringa, L. J. A., Timmermans, K. R., Veldhuis, M. J. W., & Riebesell, U. (2004). Effect of trace metal availability on coccolithophorid calcification. Nature, 430(7000), 673–676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli, J. R. (2013). Detecting Fraud in Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Arena, P., & Patanè, L. (Eds.). (2009). Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots (Vol. 1). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosenblatt, J., & Calantone, R. (2015). Using the Price/Quantity Model to Indicate Power in Marketing Channels. In V. V. Bellur (Ed.), The 1980’s: A Decade of Marketing Challenges: Proceedings of the 1981 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference (pp. 14–19). Springer International Publishing.

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 British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, July 4). Singapore Pursues Palm Oil Companies Over 2015 Haze. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/singapore-pursues-palm-oil-companies-over-2015-haze/

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. (1998). Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Superseded by AIMD-99-32) (AIMD-98-110). 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

Copeland, A. D. (2013). A qualitative study of clinical oncology nurses’ perceptions of work-life balance [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Castle, S. (2017, March 29). Britain Initiates ‘Brexit,’ Wading Into Thorny Divorce From E.U. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harmon, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gurao & Suwas, 2014; Harmon, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gurao & Suwas, 2014)
Three authors: (Armbrecht et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Schulz et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Educational Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Educ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0007-0998
ISSN (online)	2044-8279
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education