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

Innanen, K. (2006). Planetary science. Solving Laplace’s lunar puzzle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 622–623.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ticozzi, F., & Viola, L. (2014). Quantum resources for purification and cooling: fundamental limits and opportunities. Scientific Reports, 4, 5192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bueno, J. T., Shchukina, N., & Ramos, A. A. (2004). A substantial amount of hidden magnetic energy in the quiet Sun. Nature, 430(6997), 326–329.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Saini, P., Eyler, D. E., Green, R., & Dever, T. E. (2009). Hypusine-containing protein eIF5A promotes translation elongation. Nature, 459(7243), 118–121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troppens, U., Erkens, R., & Müller, W. (2004). Storage Networks Explained. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Catalano, O. (2009). Fundamentals in Oncologic Ultrasound: Sonographic Imaging and Intervention in the Cancer Patient (A. Nunziata & A. Siani, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Adachi, T. (2015). Bioethics Education in Japan: Ethics Education for Medical and Nursing Students. In H. A. M. J. ten Have (Ed.), Bioethics Education in a Global Perspective: Challenges in global bioethics (pp. 51–64). 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

Taub, B. (2016, May 12). MDMA Levels In Ecstasy Tablets Are Now Higher Than Ever. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/mdma-levels-ecstasy-tablets-are-now-higher-ever/

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. (1980). Major Factors Inhibit Expansion of the School Breakfast Program (CED-80-35). 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

Mitra, A. (2014). Sigma Factor N: A Novel Regulator of Acid Resistance and Locus of Enterocyte Effacement in Escherichia coli O157:H7 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Williams, J. (2017, May 25). Alain Mabanckou. New York Times, C18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Innanen, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Innanen, 2006; Ticozzi & Viola, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ticozzi & Viola, 2014)
Three authors: (Bueno et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Saini et al., 2009)

About the journal

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