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

Endo, M. (2006). Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006). Nature, 442(7106), 996.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roe, G. H., & Baker, M. B. (2007). Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5850), 629–632.

A journal article with 3 authors

Viculis, L. M., Mack, J. J., & Kaner, R. B. (2003). A chemical route to carbon nanoscrolls. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5611), 1361.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Diebel, C. E., Proksch, R., Green, C. R., Neilson, P., & Walker, M. M. (2000). Magnetite defines a vertebrate magnetoreceptor. Nature, 406(6793), 299–302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ollivier, J.-P., Torrenti, J.-M., & Carcassès, M. (2012). Physical Properties of Concrete and Concrete Constituents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Senn, H.-J., Kapp, U., & Otto, F. (Eds.). (2009). Cancer Prevention II (Vol. 181). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

De Petro, P., Battiston, B., Matteotti, R., Petraz, M., Molino, D., & Mattu, R. (2016). Gomito. In C. Faletti (Ed.), Traumatologia scheletrica: Imaging integrato clinico-radiologico (pp. 99–147). Milano: 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

Carpineti, A. (2017, February 22). A Potential Dark Matter Signature Has Been Seen in The Andromeda Galaxy. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2006). Commerce Information Technology Solutions Next Generation Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (No. GAO-06-791R). 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

San, K. A. (2017). Synthesis of Alkanethiolate-Capped Metal Nanoparticles Using Alkyl Thiosulfate Ligand Precursors for Selective Catalytic Reactions (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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. (2010, April 11). One Man, Two Courts. New York Times, p. WK11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Endo 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Endo 2006; Roe and Baker 2007).

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

Two authors: (Roe and Baker 2007)
Three or more authors: (Diebel et al. 2000)

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