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

Mestel, L. (2005). Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919-2005). Nature, 437(7060), 828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morata, G., & Ballesteros-Arias, L. (2014). Developmental Biology. Death to the losers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6214), 1181–1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sia, G. M., Clem, R. L., & Huganir, R. L. (2013). The human language-associated gene SRPX2 regulates synapse formation and vocalization in mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6161), 987–991.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bukowski, M. R., Koehntop, K. D., Stubna, A., Bominaar, E. L., Halfen, J. A., Münck, E., et al. (2005). A thiolate-ligated nonheme oxoiron(IV) complex relevant to cytochrome P450. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5750), 1000–1002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McEvily, A. J. (2013). Metal Failures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Solis-Oba, R., & Persiano, G. (Eds.). (2012). Approximation and Online Algorithms: 9th International Workshop, WAOA 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 8-9, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7164). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hansen, A., Hees, F., & Richert, A. (2014). Kreativität mit System – Innovationsmanagement strategisch umsetzen. In S. Jeschke, I. Isenhardt, F. Hees, & K. Henning (Eds.), Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2013/2014 (pp. 45–50). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, October 19). The Comedy Wildlife Photography Award Finalists Are Absolutely Hilarious. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-comedy-wildlife-photography-award-finalists-are-absolutely-hilarious/. 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. (1984). NASA’s Requirement for a Single Solid Rocket Refurbishment and Assembly Facility at Kennedy Space Center (No. NSIAD-84-124). 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

Krepstekies, C. (2010). News Media Representations of Women in the U.S. Military Post September 11, 2001 (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Dinardo, K. (2015, September 27). Sarah Aciego on Breaking Barriers to Arctic Travel. New York Times, p. TR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mestel 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mestel 2005; Morata and Ballesteros-Arias 2014).

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

Two authors: (Morata and Ballesteros-Arias 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bukowski et al. 2005)

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

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