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

Tannock, I. F. (2015). Cancer: Resistance through repopulation. Nature, 517(7533), 152–153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann, H. M., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2007). Non-equilibrium degassing and a primordial source for helium in ocean-island volcanism. Nature, 449(7165), 1037–1040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominici, F., Greenstone, M., & Sunstein, C. R. (2014). Science and regulation. Particulate matter matters. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6181), 257–259.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Okada, Y., Scott, G., Ray, M. K., Mishina, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2007). Histone demethylase JHDM2A is critical for Tnp1 and Prm1 transcription and spermatogenesis. Nature, 450(7166), 119–123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaughan, D., Robinson, N., Lucas, N., & Arulkumaran, S. (2010). Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Li, C. (2016). The Chang’E-1 Topographic Atlas of the Moon. (J. Liu, L. Mu, X. Ren, & W. Zuo, Eds.) (2nd ed. 2016.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirano, S., & Tsumoto, S. (2014). Mining Typical Order Sequences from EHR for Building Clinical Pathways. In W.-C. Peng, H. Wang, J. Bailey, V. S. Tseng, T. B. Ho, Z.-H. Zhou, & A. L. P. Chen (Eds.), Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2014 International Workshops: DANTH, BDM, MobiSocial, BigEC, CloudSD, MSMV-MBI, SDA, DMDA-Health, ALSIP, SocNet, DMBIH, BigPMA,Tainan, Taiwan, May 13-16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 39–49). 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 European Journal of Psychology of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 27). Has NASA Really Created A Warp Drive? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/warp-drives-mars-and-back-time-lunch/. 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. (1979). National Bureau of Standards--Information and Observations on Its Administration (No. CED-79-29). 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

Rogers, R. C. (2010). Documenting cultural transition through contact archaeology in Tíhoo, Mérida, Yucatán (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1994, February 6). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, p. 1317.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tannock 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay 2007; Tannock 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gonnermann and Mukhopadhyay 2007)
Three or more authors: (Okada et al. 2007)

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