How to format your references using the Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability. 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

Lamb, S. (2001). Walking with producers. Nature, 412(6844), 277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubin, J. D., & Taatjes, D. J. (2015). Molecular biology: Mediating transcription and RNA export. Nature, 526(7572), 199–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basole, A., White, L. E., & Fitzpatrick, D. (2003). Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature, 423(6943), 986–990.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kłos, J. W., Kumar, D., Krawczyk, M., & Barman, A. (2013). Magnonic band engineering by intrinsic and extrinsic mirror symmetry breaking in antidot spin-wave waveguides. Scientific reports, 3, 2444.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen, S., & Huang, P. (2017). Principles of Tribology. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Doi, S. (2010). Computational Electrophysiology: Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations. (J. Inoue, Z. Pan, & K. Tsumoto, Eds.) (Vol. 2). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Komar, A., & Dvorak, J. (2011). Theoretical Issues of Food Chain Security and Case Studies in the Czech Army. In H. Alpas, S. M. Berkowicz, & I. Ermakova (Eds.), Environmental Security and Ecoterrorism (pp. 55–71). Dordrecht: 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 Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, September 6). iPhone 7 Leaks: Apple Expert Forecasts What Features To Expect On New iPhone. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/iphone-7-leaks-apple-expert-forecasts-what-features-to-expect-on-new-iphone/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2005). NASA: More Knowledge Needed to Determine Best Alternatives to Provide Space Station Logistics Support (No. GAO-05-488). 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

Bradley, K. A. (2014). A Tennessee Irish Picnic: Foodways and Complex Community Dynamics (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Van Gelder, S. K. C. by L. (2005, January 21). Arts, Briefly; A New Yorker Clone Folds. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lamb 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lamb 2001; Rubin and Taatjes 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rubin and Taatjes 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kłos et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
Abbreviation	Educ. Assess. Eval. Acc.
ISSN (print)	1874-8597
ISSN (online)	1874-8600
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Education