How to format your references using the Research Evaluation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Evaluation. 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

Bahcall, O. (2015). ‘Precision medicine’, Nature, 526/7573: 335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crisp, R. J., & Meleady, R. (2012). ‘Adapting to a multicultural future’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 336/6083: 853–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Külheim, C., Agren, J., & Jansson, S. (2002). ‘Rapid regulation of light harvesting and plant fitness in the field’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 297/5578: 91–3.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Banal, J. L., White, J. M., Ghiggino, K. P., & Wong, W. W. H. (2014). ‘Concentrating aggregation-induced fluorescence in planar waveguides: a proof-of-principle’, Scientific reports, 4: 4635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pevsner, J. (2005). Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

D’Hondt, T. (Ed.). (2010). ECOOP 2010 – Object-Oriented Programming: 24th European Conference, Maribor, Slovenia, June 21-25, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6183. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kathiresan, R., Koger, C. H., & Reddy, K. N. (2006). ‘ALLELOPATHY FOR WEED CONTROL IN AQUATIC AND WETLAND SYSTEMS’. INDERJIT & Mukerji K. G. (eds) Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases, Disease Management of Fruits and Vegetables, pp. 103–22. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht.

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 Research Evaluation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). ‘3D Printed Robot Takes Hoverbike Out For A Spin’. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1980). Continued Use of Costly, Outmoded Computers in Federal Agencies Can Be Avoided ( No. AFMD-81-9). Washington, DC: 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

Arens, J. L. (2015). Power, Oppression, and Group Difference Interrogation: A Call to Social Justice Movement Organizations (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Castle, S., & Erlanger, S. (2017). ‘British Premier Outlines Path to a Clean Break With the E.U’. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bahcall 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bahcall 2015; Crisp & Meleady 2012).

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

Two authors: (Crisp & Meleady 2012)
Three or more authors: (Banal et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Evaluation
Abbreviation	Res. Eval.
ISSN (print)	0958-2029
ISSN (online)	1471-5449
Scope	Education Library and Information Sciences