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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Educational Research 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	Download the output style file
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

Ma, E. (2004). Materials science. Watching the nanograins roll. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5684), 623–624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hopkinson, C. S., Jr, & Vallino, J. J. (2005). Efficient export of carbon to the deep ocean through dissolved organic matter. Nature, 433(7022), 142–145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerstein, M., Lan, N., & Jansen, R. (2002). Proteomics. Integrating interactomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 284–287.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Klinakis, A., Lobry, C., Abdel-Wahab, O., Oh, P., Haeno, H., Buonamici, S., van De Walle, I., Cathelin, S., Trimarchi, T., Araldi, E., Liu, C., Ibrahim, S., Beran, M., Zavadil, J., Efstratiadis, A., Taghon, T., Michor, F., Levine, R. L., & Aifantis, I. (2011). A novel tumour-suppressor function for the Notch pathway in myeloid leukaemia. Nature, 473(7346), 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doyle, J. F. (2005). Modern Experimental Stress Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Brown, L. (Ed.). (2013). Pathology of the Vulva and Vagina. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Miller, P., Sauzé, C., & Neal, M. (2014). Development of ARRTOO: A Long-Endurance, Hybrid-Powered, Oceanographic Research Vessel. In F. L. Bars & L. Jaulin (Eds.), Robotic Sailing 2013: Proceedings of the 6th International Robotic Sailing Conference (pp. 53–65). Springer International Publishing.

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 Research Review.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, July 6). 61-Year-Old Former Boxer Has A Run In With A Black Bear. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/61yearold-former-boxer-has-a-run-in-with-a-black-bear/

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). Comments on H.R. 7689 (B-200171). 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

Leonard, J. M. (2001). The Effect of Manufacturing Establishments on Local Area per Capita Personal Income in the U.S. 1967-1990 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2014, October 15). Deal Is Said to Be Close in Detroit’s Bankruptcy. New York Times, A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ma, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hopkinson & Vallino, 2005; Ma, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hopkinson & Vallino, 2005)
Three authors: (Gerstein et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Klinakis et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Research Review
Abbreviation	Educ. Res. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1747-938X
Scope	Education