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

Conard, N. J. (2009). A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany. Nature, 459(7244), 248–252.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ashlin, A., & Ladle, R. J. (2006). Science communication. Environmental science adrift in the blogosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5771), 201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins, S. H., Wiggin, M. B., & Sawicki, G. S. (2015). Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton. Nature, 522(7555), 212–215.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, M., Meng, G., Huang, Q., & Zhang, S. (2014). Improved sensitivity of polychlorinated-biphenyl-orientated porous-ZnO surface photovoltage sensors from chemisorption-formed ZnO-CuPc composites. Scientific Reports, 4, 4284.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rohde, U. L., Jain, G. C., Poddar, A. K., & Ghosh, A. K. (2011). Introduction to Integral Calculus. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Birkhofer, H. (Ed.). (2011). The Future of Design Methodology. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Richard, J., Robert, J.-M., Malo, S., & Migneault, J. (2011). Giving UI Developers the Power of UI Design Patterns. In M. J. Smith & G. Salvendy (Eds.), Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information: Symposium on Human Interface 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 40–47). 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 European Journal of Education and Psychology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2015, November 3). Mysterious Ancient Geoglyphs Discovered In Kazakhstan Leave Archeologists Perplexed. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mysterious-ancient-geoglyphs-discovered-kazakhstan-leave-archaeologists-perplexed/

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. (2005). Federal Family Education Loan Program: More Oversight Is Needed for Schools That Are Lenders (GAO-05-184). 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

Roberson, B. N. (2013). Motivation towards learning perceived in Socratic seminar versus traditional lecture [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Vecsey, G. (2011, July 11). At All-Star Game, Politics and Passion Are Also in Play. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Conard, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ashlin & Ladle, 2006; Conard, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ashlin & Ladle, 2006)
Three authors: (Collins et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Li 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