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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Two-way traffic. Nature, 431(7008), 611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Attisano, L., & Wrana, J. L. (2002). Signal transduction by the TGF-beta superfamily. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1646–1647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loeffler, J. M., Nelson, D., & Fischetti, V. A. (2001). Rapid killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with a bacteriophage cell wall hydrolase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5549), 2170–2172.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Benoff, B., Yang, H., Lawson, C. L., Parkinson, G., Liu, J., Blatter, E., Ebright, Y. W., Berman, H. M., & Ebright, R. H. (2002). Structural basis of transcription activation: the CAP-alpha CTD-DNA complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1562–1566.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, I., Gaudard, M. A., & Stephens, M. L. (2016). Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cheung, S. K. S., Kwok, L.-F., Yang, H., Fong, J., & Kwan, R. (Eds.). (2015). Hybrid Learning: Innovation in Educational Practices: 8th International Conference, ICHL 2015, Wuhan, China, July 27-29, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 9167). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pratt, L. J., & Whitehead, J. A. (2007). Coastal Applications. In J. A. Whitehead (Ed.), Rotating Hydraulics: Nonlinear Topographic Effects in the Ocean and Atmosphere (pp. 369–414). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, March 24). What To Do When You’re Dead: Science Edition. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-do-when-youre-dead-science-edition/

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. (1994). Alternative-Fueled Vehicles: Progress Made in Accelerating Federal Purchases, but Benefits and Costs Remain Uncertain (RCED-94-161). 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

Venegas Carro, G. I. (2017). The Slow Movements of Anton Bruckner’s Symphonies: Dialogical Perspectives [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Williams, J. (2017, March 24). The Head Honcho’s Head Honcho. New York Times, BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Attisano & Wrana, 2002; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Attisano & Wrana, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Benoff et al., 2002)

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