How to format your references using the Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lynch, C. (2008). Big data: How do your data grow? Nature, 455(7209), 28–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahn, S., & Joyner, A. L. (2005). In vivo analysis of quiescent adult neural stem cells responding to Sonic hedgehog. Nature, 437(7060), 894–897.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, J. C., Horton, J. D., & Hobbs, H. H. (2011). Human fatty liver disease: old questions and new insights. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6037), 1519–1523.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liu, Z.-Q., Song, J.-P., Liu, X., Jiang, J., Chen, X., Yang, L., Hu, T., Zheng, P.-Y., Liu, Z.-G., & Yang, P.-C. (2014). Mast cell-derived serine proteinase regulates T helper 2 polarization. Scientific Reports, 4, 4649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cowan, J. P. (2016). The Effects of Sound on People. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bationo, A., Waswa, B., Okeyo, J. M., Maina, F., Kihara, J., & Mokwunye, U. (Eds.). (2011). Fighting Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Multiple Roles of Legumes in Integrated Soil Fertility Management. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kwasnicka, H., & Szpunar-Huk, E. (2006). Genetic Programming in Data Modelling. In N. Nedjah, L. de M. Mourelle, & A. Abraham (Eds.), Genetic Systems Programming: Theory and Experiences (pp. 105–130). 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 Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 7). How Some Parasites Can End Up In Your Eye And Turn You Blind. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-some-parasites-can-end-your-eye-and-turn-you-blind/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: State Department Needs To Make Fundamental Improvements To Its Year 2000 Program (AIMD-98-162). 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

Kilpatrick, R. F. (2010). A World Less Paved [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, March 7). A 96-Team Tournament? Now That’s Madness. New York Times, SP6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lynch, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Ahn & Joyner, 2005; Lynch, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Ahn & Joyner, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Abbreviation	Educ. Eval. Policy Anal.
ISSN (print)	0162-3737
ISSN (online)	1935-1062
Scope	Education