How to format your references using the Journal of Education Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Education Policy. 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

Bucksbaum, Philip H. 2007. “The Future of Attosecond Spectroscopy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5839): 766–769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ricklefs, Robert E., and Diana C. Outlaw. 2010. “A Molecular Clock for Malaria Parasites.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5988): 226–229.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grassly, Nicholas C., Christophe Fraser, and Geoffrey P. Garnett. 2005. “Host Immunity and Synchronized Epidemics of Syphilis across the United States.” Nature 433 (7024): 417–421.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

McComas, D. J., F. Allegrini, F. Bagenal, F. Crary, R. W. Ebert, H. Elliott, A. Stern, and P. Valek. 2007. “Diverse Plasma Populations and Structures in Jupiter’s Magnetotail.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5848): 217–220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kiehl, Anita R., and Maron Brown Calderwood Mays. 2016. Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pina, Marco, and Nathalie Gontier, eds. 2014. The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Vol. 1. Interdisciplinary Evolution Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sainz, Miguel A., Joaquim Armengol, Remei Calm, Pau Herrero, Lambert Jorba, and Josep Vehi. 2014. “Interval Arithmetic.” In Modal Interval Analysis: New Tools for Numerical Information, edited by Joaquim Armengol, Remei Calm, Pau Herrero, Lambert Jorba, and Josep Vehi, 121–141. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Cham: 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 Journal of Education Policy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Early MAVEN Results Offer Clues Of What Depleted The Atmosphere of Mars.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/early-maven-results-offer-clues-what-depleted-atmosphere-mars/.

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. 1996. NASA Personnel: Challenges to Achieving Workforce Reductions. NSIAD-96-176. Washington, DC: 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

Zelaya, Guadalupe Susana. 2012. “Hopelessness and Diabetes: Do Hispanic Diabetic Patients Feel Less Hopeless Eating Fruits, Vegetables and Exercising Regularly?” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Hodgman, John. 2017. “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman.” New York Times, March 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bucksbaum 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bucksbaum 2007; Ricklefs and Outlaw 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ricklefs and Outlaw 2010)
Three authors: (Grassly, Fraser, and Garnett 2005)
4 or more authors: (McComas et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Education Policy
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0268-0939
ISSN (online)	1464-5106
Scope	Education