How to format your references using the BIOETHICS UPdate citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BIOETHICS UPdate. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Blow, N. (2009). Glycobiology: A spoonful of sugar. Nature, 457(7229), 617–620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chouard, T., & Venema, L. (2015). Machine intelligence. Nature, 521(7553), 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alkire, M. T., Hudetz, A. G., & Tononi, G. (2008). Consciousness and anesthesia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 876–880.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Caro, G., Bourdon, B., Birck, J.-L., & Moorbath, S. (2003). 146Sm-142Nd evidence from Isua metamorphosed sediments for early differentiation of the Earth’s mantle. Nature, 423(6938), 428–432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hao, L., & Lawrence, J. (2006). Laser Surface Treatment of Bio-Implant Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rehm, G., & Uszkoreit, H. (Eds.). (2012). The English Language in the Digital Age. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Baykal, C., & Yazganoğlu, K. D. (2014). Cutaneous Cysts. In K. D. Yazganoğlu (Ed.), Clinical Atlas of Skin Tumors (pp. 125–143). 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 BIOETHICS UPdate.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 2). 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Vaginas. 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. (2004). Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee: IRAC Representatives Effectively Coordinate Federal Spectrum but Lack Seniority to Advise on Contentious Policy Issues (GAO-04-1028). 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

Blandin, N. M. (2008). Re-conceptualizing leadership for an era of complexity and uncertainty: A case study of leadership in a complex adaptive system [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Wilson, M. (2017, October 13). Chelsea Bomb Suspect Prevented Another Explosion, His Lawyer Claims. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Blow, 2009; Chouard & Venema, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chouard & Venema, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Caro et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	BIOETHICS UPdate
ISSN (print)	2395-938X
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