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

Macilwain, C. (2000). Green light for plans to sell off US helium reserve. Nature, 405(6786), 496.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nanda, R., & Rhodes-Kropf, M. (2015). ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Financing experiments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pluth, M. D., Bergman, R. G., & Raymond, K. N. (2007). Acid catalysis in basic solution: a supramolecular host promotes orthoformate hydrolysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5821), 85–88.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Moore, R. G., Zhang, J., Nascimento, V. B., Jin, R., Guo, J., Wang, G. T., Fang, Z., Mandrus, D., & Plummer, E. W. (2007). A surface-tailored, purely electronic, mott metal-to-insulator transition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5850), 615–619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick, V. J., Jr, Mckinney, J. D., & Williams, K. J. (2015). FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Oestreicher, A., & Hammer, M. (Eds.). (2014). Taxation of Income from Domestic and Cross-border Collective Investment: A Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Parker, G. (2015). Punctuated Anytime Learning for Autonomous Agent Control. In A. El-Osery & J. Prevost (Eds.), Control and Systems Engineering: A Report on Four Decades of Contributions (pp. 89–107). 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

Andrew, D. (2016, June 15). Does Tapping A Can Of Fizzy Drink Really Stop It Foaming Over? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/does-tapping-a-can-of-fizzy-drink-really-stop-it-foaming-over/

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. (1971). Criteria Needed for Measuring Technical Assistance Results and Contractor Performance (B-160789). 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

Schellhous, W. T. (2017). Factors and Interactions Contributing to the Risk of Fire following Earthquake for Urban Southern California [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, April 15). Asked Yet Again for Multiple Innings, Mets’ Bullpen Lets a Game Slip Away. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2000; Nanda & Rhodes-Kropf, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Nanda & Rhodes-Kropf, 2015)
Three authors: (Pluth et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Moore et al., 2007)

About the journal

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