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

Koshland, D. E., Jr. (2002). Special essay. The seven pillars of life. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5563), 2215–2216.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dijk, D.-J., & Skeldon, A. C. (2015). Biological rhythms: Human sleep before the industrial era. Nature, 527(7577), 176–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyvat, M., Hafner, C., & Leuthold, J. (2014). Wireless control and selection of forces and torques--towards wireless engines. Scientific Reports, 4, 5681.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Brembs, B., Lorenzetti, F. D., Reyes, F. D., Baxter, D. A., & Byrne, J. H. (2002). Operant reward learning in Aplysia: neuronal correlates and mechanisms. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1706–1709.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartley, T. (2011). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Reis, R., Cao, Y., & Wirth, G. (Eds.). (2015). Circuit Design for Reliability. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews, M. (2012). Learning from Stories, Stories of Learning. In I. F. Goodson, A. M. Loveless, & D. Stephens (Eds.), Explorations in Narrative Research (pp. 33–41). SensePublishers.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, May 26). Paralysed Patient Makes Natural Movements Using Robotics And The Power Of Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/paralysed-patient-makes-natural-movements-using-robotics-and-power-thought/

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. (1989). Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Interim Actions to Reduce Near Mid-Air Collisions (RCED-89-149). 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

Pookcharoen, S. (2009). Metacognitive online reading strategies among Thai EFL university students [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana 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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, February 16). Clawing Her Way Back to Normal. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koshland, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dijk & Skeldon, 2015; Koshland, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Dijk & Skeldon, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Brembs et al., 2002)

About the journal

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