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

Sanderson, K. (2007). Nanotech growing pains. Nature, 446(7139), 963.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pomerantz, R. T., & O’Donnell, M. (2010). Direct restart of a replication fork stalled by a head-on RNA polymerase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5965), 590–592.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, D., Son, S.-W., & Jeong, H. (2014). Large-scale quantitative analysis of painting arts. Scientific Reports, 4, 7370.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kloppenborg, B., Stencel, R., Monnier, J. D., Schaefer, G., Zhao, M., Baron, F., McAlister, H., Ten Brummelaar, T., Che, X., Farrington, C., Pedretti, E., Sallave-Goldfinger, P. J., Sturmann, J., Sturmann, L., Thureau, N., Turner, N., & Carroll, S. M. (2010). Infrared images of the transiting disk in the epsilon Aurigae system. Nature, 464(7290), 870–872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziska, L. H., & Dukes, J. S. (2010). Weed Biology and Climate Change. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Banichuk, N. V. (2010). Structural Optimization with Uncertainties (P. Neittaanmäki, Ed.; Vol. 162). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Nziali, E., & Fayolle, A. (2015). Early-Stage Businesses, Resource Inheritance, and Coworkers Hiring: The Moderating Role of Founder’s Human Capital. In R. Baptista & J. Leitão (Eds.), Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development: Labor Networks, Knowledge Flows, and Industry Growth (pp. 75–91). 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 Evaluation and Program Planning.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 24). Five Reasons To Put The Kettle On And Have A Cup Of Tea. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/five-reasons-put-kettle-and-have-cup-tea/

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. (1983). Computer Technology at IRS: Present and Planned (GGD-83-103). 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

Gates, D. A. (2017). Best Practices and Strategies for Financial Literacy in Faith-Based Organizations [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

Billard, M. (2010, April 22). Scouting Report. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sanderson, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Pomerantz & O’Donnell, 2010; Sanderson, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Pomerantz & O’Donnell, 2010)
Three authors: (Kim et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Kloppenborg et al., 2010)

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