How to format your references using the Evaluation and Program Planning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evaluation and Program Planning. 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	Download the output style file
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

Robel, A. (2015). Climate science: The long future of Antarctic melting. Nature, 526(7573), 327–328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sherman, G., & Visscher, P. K. (2002). Honeybee colonies achieve fitness through dancing. Nature, 419(6910), 920–922.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloss, T. A., Witze, E. S., & Rothman, J. H. (2003). Suppression of CED-3-independent apoptosis by mitochondrial betaNAC in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature, 424(6952), 1066–1071.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mellander, L. J., Kurczy, M. E., Najafinobar, N., Dunevall, J., Ewing, A. G., & Cans, A.-S. (2014). Two modes of exocytosis in an artificial cell. Scientific Reports, 4, 3847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raczynski, S. (2006). Modeling and Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gorlewski, J. A. (2012). Theory into Practice: Case Stories for School Leaders (D. A. Gorlewski & T. M. Ramming, Eds.; Vol. 3). SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Oderda, M., & Gontero, P. (2013). Swollen and/or Painful Scrotum. In P. Gontero, R. S. Kirby, & C. C. Carson III (Eds.), Problem Based Urology (pp. 29–41). 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 Evaluation and Program Planning.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, March 14). Your Brain Is “Hard-Wired” To React Without Thinking. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/your-brain-hard-wired-react-without-thinking/

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. (1997). Transportation Financing: Challenges in Meeting Long-Term Funding Needs for FAA, Amtrak, and the Nation’s Highways (T-RCED-97-151). 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

Carlson, D. L. (2014). BOUND/(bang) [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Saslow, L. (2009, April 12). Sorting Out their Goals, and Options. New York Times, WE7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Robel, 2015; Sherman & Visscher, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sherman & Visscher, 2002)
Three authors: (Bloss et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Mellander et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evaluation and Program Planning
Abbreviation	Eval. Program Plann.
ISSN (print)	0149-7189
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Social Psychology Geography, Planning and Development