How to format your references using the Educational Review citation style

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

Marx, Christopher J. 2009. “Microbiology. Getting in Touch with Your Friends.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5931): 1150–1151.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanderschuren, Louk J. M. J., and Barry J. Everitt. 2004. “Drug Seeking Becomes Compulsive after Prolonged Cocaine Self-Administration.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5686): 1017–1019.

A journal article with 3 authors

Solov’yov, Ilia A., Tatiana Domratcheva, and Klaus Schulten. 2014. “Separation of Photo-Induced Radical Pair in Cryptochrome to a Functionally Critical Distance.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3845.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Akamatsu, Norihisa, Wataru Tashiro, Keisuke Saito, Jun-Ichi Mamiya, Motoi Kinoshita, Tomiki Ikeda, Jun Takeya, Shigenori Fujikawa, Arri Priimagi, and Atsushi Shishido. 2014. “Facile Strain Analysis of Largely Bending Films by a Surface-Labelled Grating Method.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sedivy, Julie, and Greg Carlson. 2011. Sold on Language. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nam, Kil-Hyun, and Gwangsoo Rhee, eds. 2007. Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2007: 10th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 29-30, 2007. Proceedings. Vol. 4817. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ubelaker, Douglas H., and Kristin M. Montaperto. 2011. “Biomechanical and Remodeling Factors in the Interpretation of Fractures in Juveniles.” In The Juvenile Skeleton in Forensic Abuse Investigations, edited by Ann H. Ross and Suzanne M. Abel, 33–48. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2015. “Lightning Strike Causes Whiskey Firenado At Jim Beam Factory.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/firenado-fuelled-jim-beam/.

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. 1988. Telecommunications: Ohio Cable Television Rate Increases, 1986 to Present. RCED-88-236FS. 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

Catalini, Meredith. 2012. “Intrinsic Rewards Increase Job Performance within an Organization.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Hubbard, Ben. 2016. “Doctor-Turned-Artist Reveals Holy City’s Hidden Side.” New York Times, December 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Marx 2009; Vanderschuren and Everitt 2004).

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

Two authors: (Vanderschuren and Everitt 2004)
Three authors: (Solov’yov, Domratcheva, and Schulten 2014)
4 or more authors: (Akamatsu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Review
Abbreviation	Educ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0013-1911
ISSN (online)	1465-3397
Scope	Education