How to format your references using the Oxford Review of Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oxford Review of Education. 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

Nicholls, H. (2015). Conservation biology: Wild at heart. Nature, 528(7583), 474–475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clausen, S., & Smith, A. B. (2005). Palaeoanatomy and biological affinities of a Cambrian deuterostome (Stylophora). Nature, 438(7066), 351–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hess, K. L., Corda, C. J., & Lanese, K. M. (2011). SPORE series winner. Science Buddies: advancing informal science education. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6029), 550–551.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Miller, M. M., Melbourne, T., Johnson, D. J., & Sumner, W. Q. (2002). Periodic slow earthquakes from the Cascadia subduction zone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5564), 2423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saguet, P. (2013). Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

MacLean, D. (2014). Android Fragments (S. Komatineni, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Fermon, C., Ott, F., & Menelle, A. (2009). Neutron Reflectometry. In J. Daillant & A. Gibaud (Eds.), X-ray and Neutron Reflectivity: Principles and Applications (pp. 183–234). Springer.

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 Oxford Review of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, May 25). If A Nuclear Bomb Explodes Nearby, Here’s Why You Should Never, Ever Get In A Car. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/if-a-nuclear-bomb-explodes-nearby-heres-why-you-should-never-ever-get-in-a-car/

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. (1971). Weaknesses in School Districts’ Implementation of the Emergency School Assistance Program (B-164031(1)). 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

Clarke, P. N. (2008). Program evaluation: A study to evaluate the effectiveness of an alternative education program in a rural county of a mid-Atlantic U.S. state [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Grynbaum, M. M., & Koblin, J. (2017, June 7). Journalists Fear Effects Of an Arrest. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicholls, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Clausen & Smith, 2005; Nicholls, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Clausen & Smith, 2005)
Three authors: (Hess et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Miller et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oxford Review of Education
Abbreviation	Oxf. Rev. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0305-4985
ISSN (online)	1465-3915
Scope	Education