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

Kaplan K. Show us the money. Nature. 2009 Jan 29;457(7229):624–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Du H, Rosbash M. The U1 snRNP protein U1C recognizes the 5’ splice site in the absence of base pairing. Nature. 2002 Sep 5;419(6902):86–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Ent F, Amos LA, Löwe J. Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. Nature. 2001 Sep 6;413(6851):39–44.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Phillips BL, Brown GP, Webb JK, Shine R. Invasion and the evolution of speed in toads. Nature. 2006 Feb 16;439(7078):803.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pasternak H, Hoch HU, Füg D. Stahltragwerke im Industriebau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Pollard AJ, Finn A, editors. Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children II. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005. XXX, 234 p. 27 illus. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; vol. 568).

A chapter in an edited book

Siebel NT, Sommer G, Kassahun Y. Evolutionary Learning of Neural Structures for Visuo-Motor Control. In: Kelemen A, Abraham A, Liang Y, editors. Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 93–115. (Kacprzyk J, editor. Studies in Computational Intelligence).

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

O`Callaghan J. NASA’s Record-Breaking Astronaut Safely Returns To Earth [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-record-breaking-astronaut-safely-returns-to-earth/

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. U.S. Merchant Marine Academy: Additional Actions Needed to Establish Effective Internal Control. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jul. Report No.: GAO-12-369.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vas LT. Orbis pictus: Intermedialität zwischen Berliner Stadtmalerei und literarischer Stadterfahrung dargestellt anhand der Werke von E.T.A. Hoffmann und Wilhelm Raabe [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2008.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Stay Execution, A Signal to Lower Courts. New York Times. 2007 Oct 31;A1.

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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