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

Chast, F. (2006). Obituary: Pierre Potier (1934-2006). Nature, 440(7082), 291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Edmunds, J. W., & Mahadevan, L. C. (2006). Cell signaling. Protein kinases seek close encounters with active genes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5786), 449–451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vieira-Pires, R. S., Szollosi, A., & Morais-Cabral, J. H. (2013). The structure of the KtrAB potassium transporter. Nature, 496(7445), 323–328.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vlahou, E. L., Thurm, F., Kolassa, I.-T., & Schlee, W. (2014). Resting-state slow wave power, healthy aging and cognitive performance. Scientific Reports, 4, 5101.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bass, F. (2013). Guide to the Census. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Khouzani, M., Panaousis, E., & Theodorakopoulos, G. (Eds.). (2015). Decision and Game Theory for Security: 6th International Conference, GameSec 2015, London, UK, November 4-5, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9406). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kang, J. X. (2008). Omega-6/Omega-3 Fatty Acid Ratio is Important for Health. In F. D. Meester & R. R. Watson (Eds.), Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept (pp. 35–49). Humana Press.

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

Taub, B. (2016, November 7). Scientists May Have Discovered The Neural Source Of Consciousness. 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. (1982). Need for Better Management of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFMD-82-74). 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

Constantine, S. (2013). Supportive services for transitional and emancipated youth: A grant proposal [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2003, December 28). Russian Youth Movement Linked to Jailed Tycoon Has Wide Civic Goals. New York Times, 112.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chast, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chast, 2006; Edmunds & Mahadevan, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Edmunds & Mahadevan, 2006)
Three authors: (Vieira-Pires et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Vlahou et al., 2014)

About the journal

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