How to format your references using the Educational Psychology Review citation style

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

White, N. J. (2008). Qinghaosu (artemisinin): the price of success. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5874), 330–334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeston, J., & Coontz, R. (2009). Industrial chemistry. Chemistry writ large. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 691.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bolmatov, D., Musaev, E. T., & Trachenko, K. (2013). Symmetry breaking gives rise to energy spectra of three states of matter. Scientific reports, 3, 2794.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rosi, N. L., Eckert, J., Eddaoudi, M., Vodak, D. T., Kim, J., O’Keeffe, M., & Yaghi, O. M. (2003). Hydrogen storage in microporous metal-organic frameworks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5622), 1127–1129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Möller, G. (2013). Geotechnik. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Yang, Y., & Ma, M. (Eds.). (2013). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 3 (Vol. 225). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wimmer, R., Jansen, N., Vorpahl, A., Ábrahám, E., Katoen, J.-P., & Becker, B. (2013). High-Level Counterexamples for Probabilistic Automata. In K. Joshi, M. Siegle, M. Stoelinga, & P. R. D’Argenio (Eds.), Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 10th International Conference, QEST 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 27-30, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 39–54). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 23). Monkey Appears To Resuscitate Dying Friend. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/did-monkey-really-resuscitate-his-friend/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1998). Child Support Enforcement: Certification Process for State Information Systems (No. AIMD-98-134). Washington, DC: 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

Jo, S. M. (2009). A study of Korean students’ creativity in science using structural equation modeling (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Billard, M. (2010, May 20). Solving a Dress-Design Sudoku. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White 2008).
This sentence cites two references (White 2008; Yeston and Coontz 2009).

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

Two authors: (Yeston and Coontz 2009)
Three or more authors: (Rosi et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Psychology Review
Abbreviation	Educ. Psychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1040-726X
ISSN (online)	1573-336X
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology