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

Baltensperger, U. (2010). Atmospheric science. Aerosols in clearer focus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5998), 1474–1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Subang, M. C., & Richardson, P. M. (2009). Neuroscience. Nuclear power for axonal growth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5950), 238–239.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinclair, A. R. E., Mduma, S., & Brashares, J. S. (2003). Patterns of predation in a diverse predator-prey system. Nature, 425(6955), 288–290.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Organ, C. L., Janes, D. E., Meade, A., & Pagel, M. (2009). Genotypic sex determination enabled adaptive radiations of extinct marine reptiles. Nature, 461(7262), 389–392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tyson, H. (2010). Microsoft® Word 2010 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bagley, R. G. (Ed.). (2010). The Tumor Microenvironment. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Howard, D. M., & Kirchhübel, C. (2011). Acoustic Correlates of Deceptive Speech – An Exploratory Study. In D. Harris (Ed.), Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: 9th International Conference, EPCE 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 28–37). 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. (2015, May 28). Found: Our 3m-Year-Old Forebear Who Lived Alongside ‘Lucy.’ IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2009). Telecommunications: Broadband Deployment Plan Should Include Performance Goals and Measures to Guide Federal Investment (GAO-09-494). 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

Vazquez Baeza, Y. (2017). Statistical Representations Of Microbial Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, March 3). Schwarzenegger Won’t Return to ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baltensperger, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Baltensperger, 2010; Subang & Richardson, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Subang & Richardson, 2009)
Three authors: (Sinclair et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Organ et al., 2009)

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