How to format your references using the Journal of Educational Psychology citation style

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

Diamond, J. (2010). Social science. The benefits of multilingualism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6002), 332–333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leibfarth, F. A., & Hawker, C. J. (2011). Chemistry. Mechanically throwing a reaction into reverse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6049), 1582–1583.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bosmans, F., Martin-Eauclaire, M.-F., & Swartz, K. J. (2008). Deconstructing voltage sensor function and pharmacology in sodium channels. Nature, 456(7219), 202–208.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dreyfus, R., Baudry, J., Roper, M. L., Fermigier, M., Stone, H. A., & Bibette, J. (2005). Microscopic artificial swimmers. Nature, 437(7060), 862–865.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, W., Xiao, H., Wang, Q., Zhao, L., & Zhu, M. (2016). Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Giovannini, M., Maffeis, C., Molinari, E., & Scaglioni, S. (Eds.). (2006). Salute & equilibrio nutrizionale. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ho-Yan, B., Lubitz, W. D., Ehlers, C., & Hertlein, J. (2014). Field Investigations in Cameroon Towards a More Appropriate Design of a Renewable Energy Pico Hydro System for Rural Electrification. In J.-C. Bolay, S. Hostettler, & E. Hazboun (Eds.), Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty? (pp. 43–56). 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 Educational Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 25). Watch The ISS Fly Over Spectacular Aurora. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-iss-fly-over-spectacular-aurora/

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. (1992). FBI: Advanced Communications Technologies Pose Wiretapping Challenges (IMTEC-92-68BR). 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

Jiang, W. (2010). Advanced techniques for semantic concept detection in general videos [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2001, October 9). In 15 Hours, Submarine Kursk Is Raised From Sea Floor. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diamond, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Diamond, 2010; Leibfarth & Hawker, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Leibfarth & Hawker, 2011)
Three authors: (Bosmans et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Dreyfus et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Educational Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Educ. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0663
ISSN (online)	1939-2176
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education