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

Shelton, James D. 2013. “Ensuring Health in Universal Health Coverage.” Nature 493 (7433): 453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwabe, Robert F., and Timothy C. Wang. 2012. “Cancer. Bacteria Deliver a Genotoxic Hit.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6103): 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erol, Volkan, Fatih Ozaydin, and Azmi Ali Altintas. 2014. “Analysis of Entanglement Measures and LOCC Maximized Quantum Fisher Information of General Two Qubit Systems.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5422.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pietrzak, Barbara, Vandana Sharma, Dhanuka Wasalathanthri, Joel Henrique Ellwanger, Edmond Sanganyado, Falko Buschke, Felicia Rounds Beardsley, et al. 2018. “Nurturing Connections to the Environment.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 362 (6417): 886–888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sailor, Wayne. 2009. Making RTI Work. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Brock, Stephen E. 2006. Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School. Edited by Shane R. Jimerson and Robin L. Hansen. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ursula Rao. 2016. “Urban Negotiations and Small-Scale Gentrification in a Delhi Resettlement Colony.” In Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi, edited by Surajit Chakravarty and Rohit Negi, 77–89. Exploring Urban Change in South Asia. New Delhi: Springer India.

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. 2015. “Study Finds Large Health Benefits To Living Near Trees.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/there-are-health-benefits-living-near-trees-study-suggests/.

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. 1972. Expenditures by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Relocation of Offices and Related Alterations to Buildings in Michoud, Lousiana. B-177038. 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

Tam, Rachel. 2013. “Adaptation of AspectJ for C Sharp.” 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

Brantley, Ben. 2016. “A Maternal Giant, Spinning Tall Tales.” New York Times, January 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelton 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Shelton 2013; Schwabe and Wang 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schwabe and Wang 2012)
Three authors: (Erol, Ozaydin, and Altintas 2014)
4 or more authors: (Pietrzak et al. 2018)

About the journal

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