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

Xu, Z. (2013). Mechanics of metal-catecholate complexes: the roles of coordination state and metal types. Scientific Reports, 3, 2914.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blander, J. M., & Amsen, D. (2009). Immunology. Amino acid addiction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5932), 1282–1283.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nicoll, R. A., Tomita, S., & Bredt, D. S. (2006). Auxiliary subunits assist AMPA-type glutamate receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5765), 1253–1256.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gao, F., Zhang, X.-M., Cui, L., Deng, K., Zeng, Q.-D., & Zuo, J.-L. (2014). Tetrathiafulvalene-supported triple-decker phthalocyaninato dysprosium(III) complex: synthesis, properties and surface assembly. Scientific Reports, 4, 5928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2007). Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-startup Safety Reviews. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Luo, A. C. J., & Sun, J.-Q. (Eds.). (2012). Complex Systems: Fractionality, Time-delay and Synchronization (Vol. 0). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Akerkar, R., & Sajja, P. S. (2016). Fuzzy Logic. In P. S. Sajja (Ed.), Intelligent Techniques for Data Science (pp. 95–123). 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

Davis, J. (2015, October 15). The Builders Of Stonehenge Feasted On Barbecue Beef And Pork. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/builders-stonehenge-feasted-barbecue-beef-and-pork/

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. (2015). Strategic Sourcing: Opportunities Exist to Better Manage Information Technology Services Spending (GAO-15-549). 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

Rodriguez, F. (2009). A historical analysis of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Feeney, K. (2011, January 16). A Focus on Cheese. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Blander & Amsen, 2009; Xu, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Blander & Amsen, 2009)
Three authors: (Nicoll et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

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