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

Gupta, S. (2001). Avoiding ambiguity. Nature, 412(6847), 589.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fairchild, A. L., & Bayer, R. (2004). Public health. Ethics and the conduct of public health surveillance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5658), 631–632.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cheng, L., Hong, W., & Hao, Z.-C. (2014). Generation of electromagnetic waves with arbitrary orbital angular momentum modes. Scientific Reports, 4, 4814.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

O’Connor, J. M., Stoffers, P., Wijbrans, J. R., Shannon, P. M., & Morrissey, T. (2000). Evidence from episodic seamount volcanism for pulsing of the Iceland plume in the past 70 Myr. Nature, 408(6815), 954–958.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser, J., & Simkins, B. J. (2009). Enterprise Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bilitewski, B., Darbra, R. M., & Barceló, D. (Eds.). (2013). Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives II: Risk-Based Assessment and Management Strategies (Vol. 23). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kubler, S., Derigent, W., Rondeau, É., Thomas, A., & Främling, K. (2013). Embedded Data on Intelligent Products – Impact on Real-Time Applications. In M. Matera & G. Rossi (Eds.), Trends in Mobile Web Information Systems: MobiWIS 2013 International Workshops, Paphos, Cyprus, August 26-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 25–34). 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 Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, October 25). Three-Parent IVF May Gain FDA Approval. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/three-parent-ivf-may-gain-fda-approval/

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. (1993). Test and Evaluation: DOD Has Been Slow In Improving Testing of Software-Intensive Systems (NSIAD-93-198). 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

Dinneny, P. N. (2017). End of August [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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2017, June 29). A Madcap Austen, Alfresco. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gupta, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fairchild & Bayer, 2004; Gupta, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Fairchild & Bayer, 2004)
Three authors: (Cheng et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (O’Connor et al., 2000)

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