How to format your references using the Review of Educational Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Educational Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Eisenstein, M. (2015). Medicine: Eyes on the target. Nature, 527(7578), S110-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crespi, B., & Springer, S. (2003). Ecology. Social slime molds meet their match. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5603), 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsumoto, K., Suzuki, W., & Tanaka, K. (2003). Neuronal correlates of goal-based motor selection in the prefrontal cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5630), 229–232.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kuo, H.-C., Hui, S., Choi, J., Asiegbu, F. O., Valkonen, J. P. T., & Lee, Y.-H. (2014). Secret lifestyles of Neurospora crassa. Scientific Reports, 4, 5135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brook, C. G. D., & Dattani, M. T. (2012). Handbook of Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Williams, I. H. (Ed.). (2010). Biocontrol-Based Integrated Management of Oilseed Rape Pests. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cardoso, J. M. P., & Diniz, P. C. (2009). Code Transformations. In P. C. Diniz (Ed.), Compilation Techniques for Reconfigurable Architectures (pp. 67–107). Springer US.

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 Review of Educational Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 19). ‘Kennewick Man’ Was Native American, Study Suggests. 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. (1987). Compensatory Education: Chapter 1 Participants Generally Meet Selection Criteria (HRD-87-26). 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

Li, L. (2012). Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer” [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, March 30). Justices Hear Arguments Over Whether Foreigners Have Reciprocal Rights in the U.S. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Crespi & Springer, 2003; Eisenstein, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Crespi & Springer, 2003)
Three authors: (Matsumoto et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Kuo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Educational Research
Abbreviation	Rev. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	0034-6543
ISSN (online)	1935-1046
Scope	Education