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

Lucey, Paul G. 2009. “Planetary Science. A Lunar Waterworld.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5952): 531–532.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sprecher, Simon G., and Claude Desplan. 2008. “Switch of Rhodopsin Expression in Terminally Differentiated Drosophila Sensory Neurons.” Nature 454 (7203): 533–537.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bauer, Peter, Alan Thorpe, and Gilbert Brunet. 2015. “The Quiet Revolution of Numerical Weather Prediction.” Nature 525 (7567): 47–55.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Vo, My-Nuong, Markus Terrey, Jeong Woong Lee, Bappaditya Roy, James J. Moresco, Litao Sun, Hongjun Fu, et al. 2018. “ANKRD16 Prevents Neuron Loss Caused by an Editing-Defective TRNA Synthetase.” Nature 557 (7706): 510–515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, Robert A., Michael G. Carew, and Tatiana Maksimenko. 2010. Micro Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brüggemann, Rainer. 2011. Ranking and Prioritization for Multi-Indicator Systems: Introduction to Partial Order Applications. Edited by Ganapati P. Patil. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tahirovic, Adnan, and Gianantonio Magnani. 2013. “Some Limitations and Real-Time Implementation.” In Passivity-Based Model Predictive Control for Mobile Vehicle Motion Planning, edited by Gianantonio Magnani, 41–51. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. London: Springer.

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. “New Photographs Show Surface Of Venus.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-use-ground-based-radar-peer-under-venus-thick-cloak/.

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. Trademark ADP System: Patent Office Should Analyze Alternatives Before Contract Award. IMTEC-87-44. 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

Parker, Heather A. 2017. “Virtual Mate Poaching: A Study of the Tactics Used to Poach a Potential Mate on Social Networking Sites.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Shear, Michael D. 2017. “Trump, Inspired by France, Wants to Show Off Military Might With a July 4 Parade.” New York Times, September 18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucey 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lucey 2009; Sprecher and Desplan 2008).

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

Two authors: (Sprecher and Desplan 2008)
Three authors: (Bauer, Thorpe, and Brunet 2015)
4 or more authors: (Vo et al. 2018)

About the journal

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