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

Bussières, P. (2014). Estimating the number and size of phloem sieve plate pores using longitudinal views and geometric reconstruction. Scientific reports, 4, 4929.

A journal article with 2 authors

Northrup, A. B., & MacMillan, D. W. C. (2004). Two-step synthesis of carbohydrates by selective aldol reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1752–1755.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katz, S. L., Syme, D. A., & Shadwick, R. E. (2001). High-speed swimming. Enhanced power in yellowfin tuna. Nature, 410(6830), 770–771.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Marescaux, J., Leroy, J., Gagner, M., Rubino, F., Mutter, D., Vix, M., et al. (2001). Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery. Nature, 413(6854), 379–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl, D. (2008). Multi-Family Millions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bartz-Beielstein, T., Chiarandini, M., Paquete, L., & Preuss, M. (Eds.). (2010). Experimental Methods for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Edelman, P. H. (2006). Minimum Total Deviation Apportionments. In B. Simeone & F. Pukelsheim (Eds.), Mathematics and Democracy: Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice (pp. 55–64). 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. (2015, April 13). Skeleton Locked in Limestone Yields Oldest Neanderthal DNA. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/skeleton-locked-limestone-yields-oldest-neanderthal-dna/. 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. (1996). Intercollegiate Athletics: Status of Efforts to Promote Gender Equity (No. HEHS-97-10). 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

Casaburi, J. D. (2010). Wildfire-traversal of network address translation routers to provide end-to-end connectivity to firewalled hosts (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

Leland, J. (2016, August 26). Black Enclave’s Newcomers: Mr. and Mrs. L.L.C. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bussières 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bussières 2014; Northrup and MacMillan 2004).

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

Two authors: (Northrup and MacMillan 2004)
Three or more authors: (Marescaux et al. 2001)

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