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

Weidemüller, Matthias. 2013. “Quantum Physics: Spooky Action Gets Collective.” Nature 498 (7455): 438–439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Affolter, Markus, and Konrad Basler. 2011. “Cell Biology. Cytonemes Show Their Colors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6027): 312–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singhal, Neelja, Manish Kumar, and Jugsharan Singh Virdi. 2014. “Molecular Analysis of β-Lactamase Genes to Understand Their Differential Expression in Strains of Yersinia Enterocolitica Biotype 1A.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5270.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Knutti, R., J. Flückiger, T. F. Stocker, and A. Timmermann. 2004. “Strong Hemispheric Coupling of Glacial Climate through Freshwater Discharge and Ocean Circulation.” Nature 430 (7002): 851–856.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maguire, Laurie, and Emma Smith. 2012. 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Yamamoto, Sakae, ed. 2014. Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design and Evaluation: 16th International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 8521. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lacape, Jean-Marc, Romain Loison, and Daniel Foncéka. 2016. “Enhanced Drought Adaptation in African Savanna Crops.” In Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide, edited by Emmanuel Torquebiau, 59–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, Danielle. 2015. “What Did Neanderthals Sound Like?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-neanderthals-have-high-pitched-voices/.

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. 2002. Transportation Infrastructure: Alternative Financing Mechanisms for Surface Transportation. GAO-02-1126T. 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

Allard, Ivy N. 2010. “Examining the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Performance: Moderators of Culture Gap.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Kalogerakis, George. 2017. “More Change At Charlotte And Wilbur’s.” New York Times, September 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weidemüller 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Weidemüller 2013; Affolter and Basler 2011).

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

Two authors: (Affolter and Basler 2011)
Three authors: (Singhal, Kumar, and Virdi 2014)
4 or more authors: (Knutti et al. 2004)

About the journal

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