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

Duncan, M. K. (2011). ‘Development. A new focus on RNA in the lens’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 331/6024: 1523–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soles, C. L., & Ding, Y. (2008). ‘Materials science. Nanoscale polymer processing’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 322/5902: 689–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bix, M., Kim, S., & Rao, A. (2005). ‘Immunology. Opposites attract in differentiating T cells’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 308/5728: 1563–5.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rose, C. R., Blum, R., Pichler, B., Lepier, A., Kafitz, K. W., & Konnerth, A. (2003). ‘Truncated TrkB-T1 mediates neurotrophin-evoked calcium signalling in glia cells’, Nature, 426/6962: 74–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Machin, D., & Campbell, M. J. (2005). Design of Studies for Medical Research. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Clemmensen, T., Campos, P., Orngreen, R., Pejtersen, A. M., & Wong, W. (Eds). (2006). Human Work Interaction Design: Designing for Human Work: The first IFIP TC 13.6 WG Conference: Designing for Human Work, February 13–15, 2006, Madeira, Portugal. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol. 221. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Budhu, A., & Wang, X. W. (2016). ‘Molecular Profiling of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma’. Carr B. I. (ed.) Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Treatment, pp. 93–112. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). ‘How To Watch Rosetta’s Tearful Goodbye At Comet 67P Today’. 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. (2010). National Transportation Safety Board: Issues Related to the 2010 Reauthorization ( No. GAO-10-366T). 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

Valenzuela, J. (2014). Medicare advantage’s population make-up and its impact on the future of Medicare financing (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Conte, L. (2011). ‘Scouting Report’. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Duncan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Duncan 2011; Soles & Ding 2008).

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

Two authors: (Soles & Ding 2008)
Three or more authors: (Rose et al. 2003)

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