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

Buckholtz, N. S. (2011). Perspective: in search of biomarkers. Nature, 475(7355), S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laflamme, M. A., & Murry, C. E. (2011). Heart regeneration. Nature, 473(7347), 326–335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goossen, L. J., Deng, G., & Levy, L. M. (2006). Synthesis of biaryls via catalytic decarboxylative coupling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5787), 662–664.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Donald, P. F., Sanderson, F. J., Burfield, I. J., Bierman, S. M., Gregory, R. D., & Waliczky, Z. (2007). International conservation policy delivers benefits for birds in Europe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 810–813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wing, C. (2012). How Your House Works. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shindé, S. L., & Srivastava, G. P. (Eds.). (2014). Length-Scale Dependent Phonon Interactions (Vol. 128). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carroll, M., Kotzé, P., & van der Merwe, A. (2012). Securing Virtual and Cloud Environments. In I. Ivanov, M. van Sinderen, & B. Shishkov (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Services Science (pp. 73–90). 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, E. (2015, October 18). Crowdfunded ‘Laser Razor’ Begs The Question Of What The Technology Can And Can’t Do. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/crowdfunded-laser-razor-begs-question-what-technology-can-and-can-t-do/

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. (2006). Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Complete Recent Efforts to Develop Policies and Procedures to Guide Requirements Development and Management (GAO-06-310). 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

Trichon, M. C. (2010). Self-Help Conferences for People Who Stutter: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Vecsey, G. (2016, June 11). Ambassador Ali. New York Times, F14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckholtz, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Buckholtz, 2011; Laflamme & Murry, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Laflamme & Murry, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Donald et al., 2007)

About the journal

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