How to format your references using the Studies in Educational Evaluation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in Educational Evaluation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Konner, M. (2004). The ties that bind. Nature, 429(6993), 705.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang, I., & Sheen, J. (2001). Two-component circuitry in Arabidopsis cytokinin signal transduction. Nature, 413(6854), 383–389.

A journal article with 3 authors

Royle, N. J., Hartley, I. R., & Parker, G. A. (2002). Sexual conflict reduces offspring fitness in zebra finches. Nature, 416(6882), 733–736.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yamamoto, T., Koashi, M., Ozdemir, S. K., & Imoto, N. (2003). Experimental extraction of an entangled photon pair from two identically decohered pairs. Nature, 421(6921), 343–346.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michael, E., Gillian, H., Stefan, K., & Alex, L. (2012). Gramsci. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Celata, F., & Coletti, R. (Eds.). (2015). Neighbourhood Policy and the Construction of the European External Borders (Vol. 115). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Agrifoglio, R., Schiavone, F., & Metallo, C. (2016). Investigating the Sailing Ship Effect as Newcomers’ Strategic Reaction to Technological Change. In T. Torre, A. M. Braccini, & R. Spinelli (Eds.), Empowering Organizations: Enabling Platforms and Artefacts (pp. 39–49). 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 Studies in Educational Evaluation.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 3). Burial Pods Could Turn Cemeteries Into Forests. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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). Survey on State Wireless E911 Funds, an E-supplement to GAO-06-338 (GAO-06-400SP). 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

Pierce, Z. D. (2016). The relationship between nursing instructors’ transformational leadership behaviors in the clinical learning environment and associate degree nursing students’ communication apprehension [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella 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

Feeney, K. (2008, January 20). Food That Recalls a Childhood. New York Times, NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Konner, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang & Sheen, 2001; Konner, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hwang & Sheen, 2001)
Three authors: (Royle et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Yamamoto et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in Educational Evaluation
Abbreviation	Stud. Educ. Eval.
ISSN (print)	0191-491X
Scope	Education