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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Psychology of Education. 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

Rees, M. J. (2000). Piecing together the biggest puzzle of all. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5498), 1919–1925.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ye, C., & Tsukruk, V. V. (2015). Materials assembly. Designing two-dimensional materials that spring rapidly into three-dimensional shapes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6218), 130–131.

A journal article with 3 authors

Freitas, R., Zhang, G., & Cohn, M. J. (2006). Evidence that mechanisms of fin development evolved in the midline of early vertebrates. Nature, 442(7106), 1033–1037.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lücke, B., Scherer, M., Kruse, J., Pezzé, L., Deuretzbacher, F., Hyllus, P., et al. (2011). Twin matter waves for interferometry beyond the classical limit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6057), 773–776.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang, F., Klette, R., & Scheibe, K. (2008). Panoramic Imaging. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Armknecht, F., & Lucks, S. (Eds.). (2012). Research in Cryptology: 4th Western European Workshop, WEWoRC 2011, Weimar, Germany, July 20-22, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7242). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tarc, P. (2012). Full-Time Teachers’ Learning. In R. Clark, D. W. Livingstone, & H. Smaller (Eds.), Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society (pp. 87–108). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Psychology of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 9). Before We Build Jurassic World We Need To Study Recent Extinctions. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2007). Airport Finance: Observations on Planned Airport Development Costs and Funding Levels and the Administration’s Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program (No. GAO-07-885). 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

Jorge, M. H. (2004). Relationships Among Poverty, Financial Services, Human Capital, Risk Coping, and Natural Resources: Evidence from El Salvador and Bolivia (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, May 10). Mets Lose Out on a Sweep as Familia and Flores Don’t Have It. New York Times, p. B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rees 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rees 2000; Ye and Tsukruk 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ye and Tsukruk 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lücke et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Psychology of Education
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Psychol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0256-2928
ISSN (online)	1878-5174
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education