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

McMahon, R. J. (2003). Chemistry. Chemical reactions involving quantum tunneling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5608), 833–834.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blackburn, T. M., & Duncan, R. P. (2001). Determinants of establishment success in introduced birds. Nature, 414(6860), 195–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., & Baker, C. H. (2006). Molecular virology: was the 1918 flu avian in origin? Nature, 440(7088), E9; discussion E9-10.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, H., Keum, J. K., Hiltner, A., Baer, E., Freeman, B., Rozanski, A., & Galeski, A. (2009). Confined crystallization of polyethylene oxide in nanolayer assemblies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5915), 757–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cortada, J. W. (2014). The Essential Manager. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Golland, P., Hata, N., Barillot, C., Hornegger, J., & Howe, R. (Eds.). (2014). Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014: 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 8674). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lopes, N., & Ribeiro, B. (2015). Support Vector Machines (SVMs). In B. Ribeiro (Ed.), Machine Learning for Adaptive Many-Core Machines - A Practical Approach (pp. 85–105). Springer International Publishing.

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. (2013, October 31). Hybrid Solar Eclipse on 3 November 2013. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hybrid-solar-eclipse-3-november-2013/

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. (2014). Secure Flight: TSA Should Take Additional Steps to Determine Program Effectiveness (GAO-14-531). 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

Perry, E. M. (2010). Live and let live: Negotiating difference in a diverse urban neighborhood [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Wagner, J. (2017, May 4). For Mets, It’s Injury After Injury, Year After Year. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McMahon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Blackburn & Duncan, 2001; McMahon, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Blackburn & Duncan, 2001)
Three authors: (Antonovics et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2009)

About the journal

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