How to format your references using the Contemporary Educational Psychology citation style

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

Schlessinger, J. (2004). Common and distinct elements in cellular signaling via EGF and FGF receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1506–1507.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blasius, B., & Stone, L. (2000). Ecology. Nonlinearity and the Moran effect. Nature, 406(6798), 846–847.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsui, K., Yoshida, H., & Ikuhara, Y. (2014). Nanocrystalline, ultra-degradation-resistant zirconia: its grain boundary nanostructure and nanochemistry. Scientific Reports, 4, 4758.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ren, T., He, W., Li, Y., Grosh, K., & Fridberger, A. (2014). Light-induced vibration in the hearing organ. Scientific Reports, 4, 5941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen, R. N. (2010). Practical Relativity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chalamwong, Y., Thabchumpon, N., & Chantavanich, S. (Eds.). (2014). Temporary Shelters and Surrounding Communities: Livelihood Opportunities, the Labour Market, Social Welfare and Social Security (Vol. 15). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Arrigo, A.-P. (2007). Anti-apoptotic, Tumorigenic and Metastatic Potential of Hsp27 (HspB1) and αB-crystallin (HspB5): Emerging Targets for the Development of New Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Strategies. In S. K. Calderwood, M. Y. Sherman, & D. R. Ciocca (Eds.), Heat Shock Proteins in Cancer (pp. 73–92). Springer Netherlands.

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 Contemporary Educational Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 6). Hypospadias: The Cause Of Penis Malformation Is Still A Matter Of Debate. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hypospadias-cause-penis-malformation-still-matter-debate/

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. (2000). Observations on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Report and Fiscal Year 2001 Performance Plan (NSIAD-00-192R). 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

Orozco, M. (2015). Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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 (Schlessinger, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Blasius & Stone, 2000; Schlessinger, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Blasius & Stone, 2000)
Three authors: (Matsui et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Ren et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Educational Psychology
Abbreviation	Contemp. Educ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0361-476X
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education