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

Julienne, P. S. (2014). Low-temperature physics: Chaos in the cold. Nature, 507(7493), 440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freed, A. M., & Lin, J. (2001). Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer. Nature, 411(6834), 180–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Angell, S. Y., Danel, I., & DeCock, K. M. (2012). Global health. Global indicators and targets for noncommunicable diseases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6101), 1456–1457.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Farooqi, I. S., Bullmore, E., Keogh, J., Gillard, J., O’Rahilly, S., & Fletcher, P. C. (2007). Leptin regulates striatal regions and human eating behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5843), 1355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J. G., & Singh, K. (2014). Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abu el Ata, N. (2014). Solving the Dynamic Complexity Dilemma: Predictive and Prescriptive Business Management: Answering the Need for a New Paradigm. (M. J. Perks, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Herranz, J., Nin, J., & Torra, V. (2010). Distributed Privacy-Preserving Methods for Statistical Disclosure Control. In J. Garcia-Alfaro, G. Navarro-Arribas, N. Cuppens-Boulahia, & Y. Roudier (Eds.), Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security: 4th International Workshop, DPM 2009 and Second International Workshop, SETOP 2009, St. Malo, France, September 24-25, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 33–47). 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

Luntz, S. (2017, February 24). Blind Termites Tiptoe Past Watchful Ants. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blind-termites-tiptoe-past-watchful-ants/. 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. (1976). Examination of the Treatment of Peer Reviewers’ Comments on Support for the “Individualized Science Instructional System” Project (No. MWD-76-78). 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

Yildiz, S. (2015). Performance analysis of space-time trellis coded MIMO-OFDM systems (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1995, April 9). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, p. 1315.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Julienne 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Freed and Lin 2001; Julienne 2014).

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

Two authors: (Freed and Lin 2001)
Three or more authors: (Farooqi et al. 2007)

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