How to format your references using the Educational Psychology in Practice citation style

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

Travesset, A. (2011). Materials science. Self-assembly enters the design era. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6053), 183–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knight, S. W., & Bass, B. L. (2001). A role for the RNase III enzyme DCR-1 in RNA interference and germ line development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5538), 2269–2271.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, C. Y., Ayliffe, M. A., & Timmis, J. N. (2003). Direct measurement of the transfer rate of chloroplast DNA into the nucleus. Nature, 422(6927), 72–76.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shors, T. J., Miesegaes, G., Beylin, A., Zhao, M., Rydel, T., & Gould, E. (2001). Neurogenesis in the adult is involved in the formation of trace memories. Nature, 410(6826), 372–376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ancheyta, J. (2011). Modeling and Simulation of Catalytic Reactors for Petroleum Refining. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vázquez, M. (2009). The Sun Recorded Through History: Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents (J. M. Vaquero, Ed.; Vol. 361). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Eliades, T., Eliades, G., Silikas, N., & Watts, D. C. (2005). Orthodontic Bonding to Wet Enamel with Water-Insensitive and Water-Activated Orthodontic Adhesive Resins. In G. Eliades, D. Watts, & T. Eliades (Eds.), Dental Hard Tissues and Bonding: Interfacial Phenomena and Related Properties (pp. 71–85). 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 in Practice.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, March 14). Five armored spiders discovered in Chinese caves. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/five-armored-spiders-discovered-chinese-caves/

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. (1980). Question Concerning Whether Funds Available Under Career Education Incentive Act Were Illegally Rescinded (B-200769). 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

Catalini, M. (2012). Intrinsic rewards increase job performance within an organization [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Angelos, J. (2017, October 10). The Prophet. New York Times, MM46.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Travesset, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Knight & Bass, 2001; Travesset, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Knight & Bass, 2001)
Three authors: (Huang et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Shors et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Psychology in Practice
Abbreviation	Educ. Psychol. Pract.
ISSN (print)	0266-7363
ISSN (online)	1469-5839
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology