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

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

Le Hur, K. (2015). Condensed-matter physics: Quantum dots and the Kondo effect. Nature, 526(7572), 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prives, C., & Lowe, S. W. (2015). Cancer: Mutant p53 and chromatin regulation. Nature, 525(7568), 199–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhew, R. C., Miller, B. R., & Weiss, R. F. (2000). Natural methyl bromide and methyl chloride emissions from coastal salt marshes. Nature, 403(6767), 292–295.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liang, H.-L., Nien, C.-Y., Liu, H.-Y., Metzstein, M. M., Kirov, N., & Rushlow, C. (2008). The zinc-finger protein Zelda is a key activator of the early zygotic genome in Drosophila. Nature, 456(7220), 400–403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van der Heide, P. (2014). Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tsikalas, F., Dypvik, H., & Smelror, M. (Eds.). (2011). The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Marine Impact Event. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cerqueira, E., Veloso, L., Neto, A., Curado, M., Mendes, P., & Monteiro, E. (2007). Q3M – QoS Architecture for Multi-user Mobile Multimedia Sessions in 4G systems. In D. Krishnaswamy, T. Pfeifer, & D. Raz (Eds.), Real-Time Mobile Multimedia Services: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2007, San José, USA, October 31 - November 2, 2007 Proceedings (pp. 38–49). 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 Review of Research in Education.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 10). NASA Just Released 56 Of Their Technology Patents For Free Public Use. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-have-released-56-patents-their-technology-free-public-use/

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). National Airspace System: Status of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (GAO-02-1071). 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

Lupian, S. (2012). Educating the Latino community on the relationship between obesity and psychosocial well being [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

Hodgman, J. (2017, June 23). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Le Hur, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Le Hur, 2015; Prives & Lowe, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Prives & Lowe, 2015)
Three authors: (Rhew et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Liang et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Research in Education
Abbreviation	Rev. Res. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0091-732X
ISSN (online)	1935-1038
Scope	Education