How to format your references using the Harvard Educational Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Harvard Educational Review. 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

Pennisi, E. (2015). Beetle horns and book writing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), 1578.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levin, L. A., & Le Bris, N. (2015). The deep ocean under climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6262), 766–768.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson, R. I., Turner, G. C., & Laurent, G. (2004). Transformation of olfactory representations in the Drosophila antennal lobe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5656), 366–370.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Huxley, A., Rodiere, P., Paul, D. M., van Dijk N, Cubitt, R., & Flouquet, J. (2000). Realignment of the flux-line lattice by a change in the symmetry of superconductivity in UPt3. Nature, 406(6792), 160–164.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl, D. (2008). Multi-Family Millions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Susilo, W., & Mu, Y. (Eds.). (2014). Information Security and Privacy: 19th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2014, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 7-9, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8544). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, N., Wang, C., Han, P., Zhang, J., Wang, K., Dai, E., Kang, W., Yang, F., Sun, B., & Guo, G. (2016). Research About Solutions to the Bottleneck of Big Data Processing in Power System. In J. Wan, I. Humar, & D. Zhang (Eds.), Industrial IoT Technologies and Applications: International Conference, Industrial IoT 2016, GuangZhou, China, March 25-26, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 44–51). 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 Harvard Educational Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 19). Autistic People Are More Creative Than You Might Think. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2002). Highway Infrastructure: Preliminary Information on the Timely Completion of Highway Construction Projects (GAO-02-1067T). 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

Thomas, E. M. (2016). Perceptions of educational leaders’ efficacy and leadership capacity upon preliminary administrative credential completion at California State University, Long Beach [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

Feeney, K. (2006, October 15). QUICK BITE | Peapack; Chocolate And a Touch Of Chic. New York Times, 14NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pennisi, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Levin & Le Bris, 2015; Pennisi, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Levin & Le Bris, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Huxley et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Harvard Educational Review
Abbreviation	Harv. Educ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0017-8055
ISSN (online)	1943-5045
Scope	Education