How to format your references using the Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions. 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

Morris MR. Astronomy. Glimpsing matter at the brink. Science. 2004 Apr 30;304(5671):689–92.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seitz AR, Watanabe T. Psychophysics: Is subliminal learning really passive? Nature. 2003 Mar 6;422(6927):36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohman DJ, Bickford D, Sodhi NS. Environment. The burning issue. Science. 2007 Apr 20;316(5823):376.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Angelaki DE, Shaikh AG, Green AM, Dickman JD. Neurons compute internal models of the physical laws of motion. Nature. 2004 Jul 29;430(6999):560–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bill Huitt WM. Bioprocessing Piping and Equipment Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Greuel GM. A Singular Introduction to Commutative Algebra. Pfister G, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. XX, 689 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Soliman MM, Hassanien AE, Onsi HM. Bio-inspiring Techniques in Watermarking Medical Images: A Review. In: Hassanien AE, Kim TH, Kacprzyk J, Awad AI, editors. Bio-inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 93–114. (Intelligent Systems Reference Library).

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 Educational Evaluation for Health Professions.

Blog post

Hale T. Nobel Laureate Finds Scientific Mistake On Turkish Banknote. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Air Traffic Control: Continuing Delays Anticipated for the Advanced Automation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jul. Report No.: IMTEC-90-63.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Widner CM. Top -dog to bottom -dog: A study of middle to high school transition and teachers’ philosophies and practices as applied to stage -environment fit theory [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2010.

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

Saslow L. Bond Issue Is Approved for Sachem Schools. New York Times. 2008 Mar 16;LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Eval. Health Prof.
ISSN (online)	1975-5937
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