How to format your references using the European Journal of Education and Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Education and Psychology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Xu, P. (2005). Eppendorf 2005 winner. A Drosophila OBP required for pheromone signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5749), 798–799.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shlomai, A., & Rice, C. M. (2014). Virology. Getting rid of a persistent troublemaker to cure hepatitis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6176), 1212–1213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bazin, E., Glémin, S., & Galtier, N. (2006). Population size does not influence mitochondrial genetic diversity in animals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5773), 570–572.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wu, Q.-S., Cao, M.-Q., Zou, Y.-N., & He, X.-H. (2014). Direct and indirect effects of glomalin, mycorrhizal hyphae, and roots on aggregate stability in rhizosphere of trifoliate orange. Scientific Reports, 4, 5823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani, G., Laporte, G., & Musmanno, R. (2013). Introduction to Logistics Systems Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Charytonowicz, J. (Ed.). (2016). Advances in Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA (Vol. 493). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mukhamedov, F., & Ganikhodjaev, N. (2015). Quantum Quadratic Stochastic Operators. In N. Ganikhodjaev (Ed.), Quantum Quadratic Operators and Processes (pp. 85–101). 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 European Journal of Education and Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 24). FBI Admits Using Flawed Scientific Evidence In Trials. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fbi-admits-using-flawed-hair-evidence-trials/

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. (1989). Small Business: Proposed Amendments to the Small Business Innovation Research Program (RCED-89-173). 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

Torres, M. F. (2009). The effect of mergers and acquisitions in the information technology organizational structures [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, August 2). At School, a ‘March’ Through the Civil Rights Movement in Visual Detail. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Shlomai & Rice, 2014; Xu, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Shlomai & Rice, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Education and Psychology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Educ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1888-8992
Scope