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

Schweitzer, G. E. (2008). Policy. Science policy in Kazakhstan. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5907), 1474–1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacobson, L. D., & Herbert, J. M. (2011). Comment on “Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity?” Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6023), 1387; author reply 1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Torre, R., Bartolini, P., & Righini, R. (2004). Structural relaxation in supercooled water by time-resolved spectroscopy. Nature, 428(6980), 296–299.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lau, N. C., Lim, L. P., Weinstein, E. G., & Bartel, D. P. (2001). An abundant class of tiny RNAs with probable regulatory roles in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5543), 858–862.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Broekaert, J. A. C. (2005). Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Balla, T., Wymann, M., & York, J. D. (Eds.). (2012). Phosphoinositides II: The Diverse Biological Functions (Vol. 59). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Almeida, J., & Rodaro, E. (2014). Semisimple Synchronizing Automata and the Wedderburn-Artin Theory. In A. M. Shur & M. V. Volkov (Eds.), Developments in Language Theory: 18th International Conference, DLT 2014, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 26-29, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 49–60). 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 Oxford Review of Education.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, May 6). 16 Facts That Show Why Bottled Water Is One Of The Biggest Scams Of The Century. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/16-facts-that-show-why-bottled-water-is-one-of-the-biggest-scams-of-the-century/

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. (1991). Aging Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed (T-RCED-91-84). 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

French, D. C. (2012). A Case against E-Waste: Where One Country’s Trash is (Not) Another Country’s Treasure: Developing National E-Waste Legislation to Regulate E-Waste Exportation [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Shpigel, B. (2017, June 5). Where Gold Cloth Is the Standard. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schweitzer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Jacobson & Herbert, 2011; Schweitzer, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Jacobson & Herbert, 2011)
Three authors: (Torre et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Lau et al., 2001)

About the journal

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