How to format your references using the Social Psychology of Education citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2002). A climate of uncertainty. Nature, 415(6870), 6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, H.-J., & Weissmüller, J. (2011). A material with electrically tunable strength and flow stress. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6034), 1179–1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corezzi, S., Fioretto, D., & Rolla, P. (2002). Bond-controlled configurational entropy reduction in chemical vitrification. Nature, 420(6916), 653–656.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pellegrini, M., Celeste, A., Difilippantonio, S., Guo, R., Wang, W., Feigenbaum, L., & Nussenzweig, A. (2006). Autophosphorylation at serine 1987 is dispensable for murine Atm activation in vivo. Nature, 443(7108), 222–225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGuiggan, P. (2005). GPRS in Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sassone, V. (Ed.). (2005). Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: 8th International Conference, FOSSACS 2005, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, UK, April 4-8, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3441). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Uchihashi, T., Kodera, N., & Ando, T. (2013). Nanovisualization of Proteins in Action Using High-Speed AFM. In A. F. Oberhauser (Ed.), Single-molecule Studies of Proteins (pp. 119–147). New York, NY: 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 Social Psychology of Education.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, July 19). Scientists May Have Discovered The Neural Basis Of Human Intelligence. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-may-have-discovered-the-neural-basis-of-human-intelligence/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1994). Immigrant Education: Federal Funding Has Not Kept Pace With Student Increases (No. T-HEHS-94-146). 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

Holloway, C. M. (2015). Evaluating five leadership traits in the rising stars succession planning program (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Mueller, B., & Baker, A. L. (2017, July 5). Police Officer Is ‘Murdered for Her Uniform’ at Post in the Bronx. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jin and Weissmüller 2011; Smaglik 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jin and Weissmüller 2011)
Three or more authors: (Pellegrini et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Social Psychology of Education
Abbreviation	Soc. Psychol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1381-2890
ISSN (online)	1573-1928
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science