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

Tokano, T. (2011). Planetary science. Precipitation climatology on Titan. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6023), 1393–1394.

A journal article with 2 authors

McFarland, E. W., & Tang, J. (2003). A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission. Nature, 421(6923), 616–618.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stinchcombe, J., Bossi, G., & Griffiths, G. M. (2004). Linking albinism and immunity: the secrets of secretory lysosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5680), 55–59.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Namy, O., Moran, S. J., Stuart, D. I., Gilbert, R. J. C., & Brierley, I. (2006). A mechanical explanation of RNA pseudoknot function in programmed ribosomal frameshifting. Nature, 441(7090), 244–247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eynon, J. (2013). The Design Manager’s Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Pelekis, N. (2014). Mobility Data Management and Exploration (Y. Theodoridis, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aho, T. (2016). Reality TV and Its Audiences Reconsidered: Class and Poverty in Undercover Boss (CBS). In S. Lemke & W. Schniedermann (Eds.), Class Divisions in Serial Television (pp. 89–117). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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. (2014, June 2). Potential Life on Red Dwarf Planets In Peril Due To Extreme Space Weather. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/potential-life-red-dwarf-planets-peril-due-extreme-space-weather/

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. (2010). National Airspace System: Setting On-Time Performance Targets at Congested Airports Could Help Focus FAA’s Actions (GAO-10-542). 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

Walker, D. (2017). University Research Adminstrators’ Perception of Incivility and the Relationship to Employee Engagement [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Sisario, B. (2016, October 18). Roll Over, Beyoncé: Chuck Berry’s Surprise. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tokano, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (McFarland & Tang, 2003; Tokano, 2011).

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

Two authors: (McFarland & Tang, 2003)
Three authors: (Stinchcombe et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Namy et al., 2006)

About the journal

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