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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Mahowald, Natalie. 2011. “Aerosol Indirect Effect on Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6057): 794–796.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cascales, Eric, and Peter J. Christie. 2004. “Definition of a Bacterial Type IV Secretion Pathway for a DNA Substrate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5674): 1170–1173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kavanagh, Kathryn D., Alistair R. Evans, and Jukka Jernvall. 2007. “Predicting Evolutionary Patterns of Mammalian Teeth from Development.” Nature 449 (7161): 427–432.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gao, Jing, Jun Zhong, Lili Bai, Jinyin Liu, Guanqi Zhao, and Xuhui Sun. 2014. “Revealing the Role of Catalysts in Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers by Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy.” Scientific Reports 4 (January 2014): 3606.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrozzi, Sergio. 2012. Practical Instrumental Analysis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bernard, Dominique, Jean-Yves Buffière, Tresa Pollock, Henning Friis Poulsen, Anthony Rollett, and Michael Uchic, eds. 2016. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on 3D Materials Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Roy, Uttam, and Mrinmoy Majumder. 2016. “Methodology.” In Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Hydro-Turbine Selections, edited by Mrinmoy Majumder, 13–18. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Singapore: 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 Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2017. “New York 2140: A Novelist’s Vision Of A Drowned City That Still Never Sleeps.” IFLScience, IFLScience, March 9. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-york-2140-a-novelists-vision-of-a-drowned-city-that-still-never-sleeps/.

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. 2008. Information Technology: FBI Is Implementing Key Acquisition Methods on Its New Case Management System, but Related Agencywide Guidance Needs to Be Improved. GAO-08-1014. 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

Downey, Sean S. 2009. “Resilient Networks and and the Historical Ecology of Q’eqchi’ Maya Swidden Agriculture.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona.

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

Paulson, Michael. 2017. “Idina Menzel Chooses An Off Broadway Stage.” New York Times, May 16, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mahowald 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mahowald 2011; Cascales and Christie 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cascales and Christie 2004)
Three authors: (Kavanagh, Evans, and Jernvall 2007)
4 or more authors: (Gao et al. 2014)

About the journal

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