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

Stewart, I., I. (2000). ‘Mathematics. The Lorenz attractor exists’, Nature, 406/6799: 948–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fox, K., & Caterson, B. (2002). ‘Neuroscience. Freeing the bain from the perineuronal net’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 298/5596: 1187–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeong, H., Chang, A. M., & Melloch, M. R. (2001). ‘The Kondo effect in an artificial quantum dot molecule’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 293/5538: 2221–3.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Agger, K., Cloos, P. A. C., Christensen, J., Pasini, D., Rose, S., Rappsilber, J., Issaeva, I., et al. (2007). ‘UTX and JMJD3 are histone H3K27 demethylases involved in HOX gene regulation and development’, Nature, 449/7163: 731–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gadd, K. (2011). TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Blanchini, F. (2015). Set-Theoretic Methods in Control. (S. Miani, Ed.)Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications, 2nd ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Neidig, J. (2013). ‘Hardware Requirements for Digital Product Memories’. Wahlster W. (ed.) SemProM: Foundations of Semantic Product Memories for the Internet of Things, Cognitive Technologies, pp. 59–72. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

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. (2015). ‘How Ready For Climate Change Is Your Town Or City?’. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-ready-climate-change-your-town-or-city/>

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. (1999). Technology Transfer: Number and Characteristics of Inventions Licensed by Six Federal Agencies ( No. RCED-99-173). 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

Krug, K. A. (2009). Critical literacy in the face of a mandated curriculum: Can children read beyond the text? (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

Dinardo, K. (2015). ‘Sarah Aciego on Breaking Barriers to Arctic Travel’. New York Times, TR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Fox & Caterson 2002; Stewart 2000).

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

Two authors: (Fox & Caterson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Agger et al. 2007)

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