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

Shetty, P. (2012). The numbers game. Nature, 484(7395), S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robbins, D. W., & Hartwig, J. F. (2011). A simple, multidimensional approach to high-throughput discovery of catalytic reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6048), 1423–1427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prosser, B. L., Ward, C. W., & Lederer, W. J. (2011). X-ROS signaling: rapid mechano-chemo transduction in heart. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6048), 1440–1445.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Saurin, A. J., Shao, Z., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Tempst, P., & Kingston, R. E. (2001). A Drosophila Polycomb group complex includes Zeste and dTAFII proteins. Nature, 412(6847), 655–660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Acharya, V. V., Cooley, T. F., Richardson, M., & Walter, I. (2010). Regulating Wall Street. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Castillejo, M., Ossi, P. M., & Zhigilei, L. (Eds.). (2014). Lasers in Materials Science (Vol. 191). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dolk, D. (2010). Structured Modeling and Model Management. In M. S. Sodhi & C. S. Tang (Eds.), A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science: The Past and the Future (pp. 63–88). 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 Research in Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 10). Original Magna Carta Edition Found In Victorian Scrapbook. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/original-magna-carta-edition-found-victorian-scrapbook/

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. (2005). Federal-Aid Highways: FHWA Needs a Comprehensive Approach to Improving Project Oversight (GAO-05-173). 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

Abraham, S. R. (2015). Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, January 19). Prospero, Confined Yet Commanding. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shetty, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Robbins & Hartwig, 2011; Shetty, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Robbins & Hartwig, 2011)
Three authors: (Prosser et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Saurin et al., 2001)

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

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