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

Herzberg, C. (2007). Geochemistry. Food for a volcanic diet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5823), 378–379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lemons, D., & McGinnis, W. (2006). Genomic evolution of Hox gene clusters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5795), 1918–1922.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long, J. A., Trinajstic, K., & Johanson, Z. (2009). Devonian arthrodire embryos and the origin of internal fertilization in vertebrates. Nature, 457(7233), 1124–1127.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wood, A. J., Lo, T.-W., Zeitler, B., Pickle, C. S., Ralston, E. J., Lee, A. H., et al. (2011). Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6040), 307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson, J. L. (1997). Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cleophas, T. J. (2010). SPSS for Starters: SPSS for Starters. (A. H. Zwinderman, Ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Thomsen, H. S. (2006). Management of Acute Adverse Reactions to Contrast Media. In H. S. Thomsen (Ed.), Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines (pp. 19–25). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, September 5). Why Danger Is Exciting – But Only To Some People. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-danger-is-exciting-but-only-to-some-people/. 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. (1975). College Work-Study Program (No. 089627). 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

Baxter, J. M. (2010). Enantioselective Mannich-type Reactions Promoted by Strained Silane Lewis Acids: Selective Generation of Two Contiguous Stereocenters and Entry into a Novel Class of Pyrrolidines (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, October 1). ‘Megyn Kelly’ Is Awkward, Not Partisan. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herzberg 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Herzberg 2007; Lemons and McGinnis 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lemons and McGinnis 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wood et al. 2011)

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