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

Mátyás C. Forecasts needed for retreating forests. Nature. 2010 Apr 29;464(7293):1271.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartel B, Matsuda SPT. Plant biology. Seeing red. Science. 2003 Jan 17;299(5605):352–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alkire MT, Hudetz AG, Tononi G. Consciousness and anesthesia. Science. 2008 Nov 7;322(5903):876–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Misewich JA, Martel R, Avouris P, Tsang JC, Heinze S, Tersoff J. Electrically induced optical emission from a carbon nanotube FET. Science. 2003 May 2;300(5620):783–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiher M, Wolf A. Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2014.

An edited book

Mukherjee S, Aarts RM, Roovers R, Widdershoven F, Ouwerkerk M, editors. AmIware Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. XXIV, 480 p. (Philips Research; vol. 5).

A chapter in an edited book

Martinho VJPD. The Performance of Manufacturing in the European Union in the Context of Agricultural Economics. In: Martinho VJPD, editor. The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 35–48.

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

Fang J. Tricky Take-Offs Kept Pterosaurs From Getting Too Big [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tricky-takeoffs-kept-pterosaurs-getting-too-big/

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. Aviation Security: Factors Could Limit the Effectiveness of the Transportation Security Administration’s Efforts to Secure Aerial Advertising Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Mar. Report No.: GAO-04-499R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lancaster G. Understanding interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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

Poniewozik J. Selling Us a Better Vision of Ourselves. New York Times. 2017 Sep 12;B1.

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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