How to format your references using the Research Papers in Education citation style

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

Gingerich, Owen. 2009. “Year of Astronomy: Mankind’s Place in the Universe.” Nature 457 (7225): 28–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ho, Ching-Hwa, and Hsin-Hung Chen. 2014. “Optically Decomposed Near-Band-Edge Structure and Excitonic Transitions in Ga₂S₃.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6143.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhew, R. C., B. R. Miller, and R. F. Weiss. 2000. “Natural Methyl Bromide and Methyl Chloride Emissions from Coastal Salt Marshes.” Nature 403 (6767): 292–295.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee, Chin-Fa, David A. Leigh, Robin G. Pritchard, David Schultz, Simon J. Teat, Grigore A. Timco, and Richard E. P. Winpenny. 2009. “Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Rotaxanes and Molecular Shuttles.” Nature 458 (7236): 314–318.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cohen, Corine. 2013. Business Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rodin, Siniša, and Tamara Perišin, eds. 2015. Judicial Application of International Law in Southeast Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sofronie-Stokkermans, Viorica. 2009. “Locality Results for Certain Extensions of Theories with Bridging Functions.” In Automated Deduction – CADE-22: 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Renate A. Schmidt, 67–83. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Research Papers in Education.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2015. “Here’s What The World Would Look Like If We Could See Wi-Fi Signals.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/here-s-how-world-would-look-if-we-could-see-wi-fi-signals/.

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. 1981. Information on Prime Sponsor CETA Expenditures Related to Membership Organizations. HRD-82-5. 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

Mavromati, Anna. 2012. “One Foot In.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney, Kelly. 2011. “A Certifiably Green Cafe.” New York Times, May 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gingerich 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gingerich 2009; Ho and Chen 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ho and Chen 2014)
Three authors: (Rhew, Miller, and Weiss 2000)
4 or more authors: (Lee et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Papers in Education
Abbreviation	Res. Pap. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0267-1522
ISSN (online)	1470-1146
Scope	Education