How to format your references using the Educational Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Educational Psychology. 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

Smaglik, P. (2005). Come together. Nature, 434(7030), 252–253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, S.-J., & Masliah, E. (2015). Neurodegeneration: Aggregates feel the strain. Nature, 522(7556), 296–297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsukage, K. N., Jing, Z., & Karato, S.-I. (2005). Density of hydrous silicate melt at the conditions of Earth’s deep upper mantle. Nature, 438(7067), 488–491.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xu, S., Jiang, Y., Xu, H., Wang, J., Lin, S., Chen, H., & Zhang, B. (2014). Realization of deep subwavelength resolution with singular media. Scientific Reports, 4, 5212.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paladino, B. (2013). Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

von Weizsäcker, E. U. (Ed.). (2014). Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies (Vol. 28). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cadossi, R. (2007). From Academy to Industry: Translational Research in Biophysics. In T. Jarm, P. Kramar, & A. Zupanic (Eds.), 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering and Computing 2007: MEDICON 2007, 26-30 June 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia (pp. 10–13). 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 Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, June 7). This Ancient Fish Helps Bridge A Gap In Our Early Evolution, Before Animals Walked on Land. 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. (1970). Need To Improve Administration of Fees and Charges of Regulatory Agencies (B-145252). 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

Drake, D. A. (2013). Viscoelastic characterization of vapor-grown carbon nanofiber/vinyl ester nanocomposites using a response surface methodology [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Gorman, J. (2016, September 27). Sciencetake: Misguided Leaders Don’t Lead Pigeons Off Course. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lee & Masliah, 2015; Smaglik, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Masliah, 2015)
Three authors: (Matsukage et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Xu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Psychology
Abbreviation	Educ. Psychol. (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	0144-3410
ISSN (online)	1469-5820
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Education