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

Lafferty, K. D. (2010). Microbiology. Interacting parasites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6001), 187–188.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gantz, V. M., & Bier, E. (2015). Genome editing. The mutagenic chain reaction: a method for converting heterozygous to homozygous mutations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 442–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, P. C., Keleshian, A. M., & Sachs, F. (2001). Voltage-induced membrane movement. Nature, 413(6854), 428–432.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brashares, J. S., Arcese, P., Sam, M. K., Coppolillo, P. B., Sinclair, A. R. E., & Balmford, A. (2004). Bushmeat hunting, wildlife declines, and fish supply in West Africa. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5699), 1180–1183.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid, M. M. (2006). Spacecraft Sensors. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mastorakis, N., & Mladenov, V. (Eds.). (2014). Computational Problems in Engineering (Vol. 307). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Soliman, M. M., Hassanien, A. E., & Onsi, H. M. (2014). Bio-inspiring Techniques in Watermarking Medical Images: A Review. In A. E. Hassanien, T.-H. Kim, J. Kacprzyk, & A. I. Awad (Eds.), Bio-inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations (pp. 93–114). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Psychology of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 5). Why Sex Robots Are Ancient History. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-sex-robots-are-ancient-history/. 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. (2000). Cooperative Research: Results of U.S.-Industry Partnership to Develop a New Generation of Vehicles (No. RCED-00-81). 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

HaMai, T. (2014). The “other” women: What about the experiences of women faculty of color in community colleges? (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, S. (2003, February 16). Beware of the Westminster Kennel’s Best in Show. New York Times, p. 42.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lafferty 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gantz and Bier 2015; Lafferty 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gantz and Bier 2015)
Three or more authors: (Brashares et al. 2004)

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