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

Smaglik, Paul. 2004. “Election Returns.” Nature 432 (7015): 417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, Bo, and Cong Cao. 2015. “Policy: Four Gaps in China’s New Environmental Law.” Nature 517 (7535): 433–434.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung, Ruei-Jiun, Chi W. Pak, and Jonathan R. Terman. 2011. “Direct Redox Regulation of F-Actin Assembly and Disassembly by Mical.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6063): 1710–1713.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sawa, Mariko, Dmitri A. Nusinow, Steve A. Kay, and Takato Imaizumi. 2007. “FKF1 and GIGANTEA Complex Formation Is Required for Day-Length Measurement in Arabidopsis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5848): 261–265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jayaweera, Sudharman K. 2014. Signal Processing for Cognitive Radios. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ogras, Umit Y. 2013. Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Network-on-Chip Communication Architectures. Edited by Radu Marculescu. Vol. 184. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cassidy, Wanda, Margaret Jackson, and Chantal Faucher. 2016. “Gender Differences and Cyberbullying Towards Faculty Members in Higher Education.” In Cyberbullying Across the Globe: Gender, Family, and Mental Health, edited by Raúl Navarro, Santiago Yubero, and Elisa Larrañaga, 79–98. Cham: 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 Review.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2015. “New Evidence Suggests Life On Earth Began Much Earlier Than We Thought.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/life-earth-started-remarkably-close-planets-fiery-formation/.

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. 1999. National Airspace System: Observations on American Airlines’ 1997 Study of Future Air Traffic Congestion. RCED-99-66R. 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

Glennie, Neil T. 2010. “Examining Trust Factor Relationships in the Online Business-to-Consumer Environment.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Hartocollis, Anemona, and J. David Goodman. 2014. “The Rush to Save Rivers’s Life at a Surgery Clinic.” New York Times, September 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Zhang and Cao 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Cao 2015)
Three authors: (Hung, Pak, and Terman 2011)
4 or more authors: (Sawa et al. 2007)

About the journal

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