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

Killian, T. C. (2007). Ultracold neutral plasmas. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5825), 705–708.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lionetti, D., & Agapie, T. (2014). Inorganic chemistry: How calcium affects oxygen formation. Nature, 513(7519), 495–496.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murakoshi, H., Wang, H., & Yasuda, R. (2011). Local, persistent activation of Rho GTPases during plasticity of single dendritic spines. Nature, 472(7341), 100–104.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, Y., Ye, X., Jiang, F., Liang, C., Chen, D., Peng, J., et al. (2009). C3PO, an endoribonuclease that promotes RNAi by facilitating RISC activation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 750–753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rieth, M. (2012). Pharmazeutische Mikrobiologie. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Theeramunkong, T., Nattee, C., Adeodato, P. J. L., Chawla, N., Christen, P., Lenca, P., et al. (Eds.). (2010). New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining: PAKDD 2009 International Workshops, Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 5669). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ewing, E. T. (2013). “A Most Powerful Instrument for a Despot”: The Telegraph as a Trans-national Instrument of Imperial Control and Political Mobilization in the Middle East. In I. Löhr & R. Wenzlhuemer (Eds.), The Nation State and Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (pp. 83–100). 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

Hale, T. (2016, November 11). Court Drops Charges Against Cecil The Lion Hunter. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/court-drops-charges-against-cecil-the-lion-hunter/. 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. (1994). Medicare: New Claims Processing System Benefits and Acquisition Risks (No. HEHS/AIMD-94-79). 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

Doss, A. (2015). Trapped within the white gaze: A DuBoisian approach to understanding the existential burden of being a black man in America (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2006, October 22). Attackers Pillage Moscow Art Gallery and Beat Activist Owner. New York Times, p. A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Killian 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Killian 2007; Lionetti and Agapie 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lionetti and Agapie 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2009)

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