How to format your references using the Education Economics citation style

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

Sibum, H. Otto. 2004. “Beyond the Ivory Tower. What Kind of Science Is Experimental Physics?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5693): 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marcus, Donald M., and Arthur P. Grollman. 2006. “Science and Government. Review for NCCAM Is Overdue.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5785): 301–302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yeung, Laurence Y., Jeanine L. Ash, and Edward D. Young. 2015. “Isotope Geochemistry. Biological Signatures in Clumped Isotopes of O₂.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6233): 431–434.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Yingqiang, Dianxiang Zhang, Susanne S. Renner, and Zhongyi Chen. 2004. “Botany: A New Self-Pollination Mechanism.” Nature 431 (7004): 39–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Breitmaier, Eberhard. 2005. Vom NMR-Spektrum Zur Strukturformel Organischer Verbindungen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Drislane, Frank W., ed. 2005. Status Epilepticus: A Clinical Perspective. Current Clinical Neurology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Oemig, Frank, and Robert Snelick. 2016. “Healthcare Data Exchange Standards.” In Healthcare Interoperability Standards Compliance Handbook: Conformance and Testing of Healthcare Data Exchange Standards, edited by Robert Snelick, 105–156. Cham: 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 Education Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Watch A Cheetah Robot Jump Over Hurdles Without Slowing Down.” 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. 1993. Electronic Signature Prototype System. AFMD-93-44R. 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

Ganatra, Vandana A. 2012. “Impact of the Media on Body Image and Eating Disorders.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wilwol, John. 2016. “They Deleted Their Kids.” New York Times, October 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibum 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sibum 2004; Marcus and Grollman 2006).

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

Two authors: (Marcus and Grollman 2006)
Three authors: (Yeung, Ash, and Young 2015)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Education Economics
Abbreviation	Educ. Econ.
ISSN (print)	0964-5292
ISSN (online)	1469-5782
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Education