How to format your references using the Ethical Theory and Moral Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 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

Lipton P (2005) Testing hypotheses: prediction and prejudice. Science 307:219–221

A journal article with 2 authors

MacCoss M, Baillie TA (2004) Organic chemistry in drug discovery. Science 303:1810–1813

A journal article with 3 authors

Palter JB, Lozier MS, Barber RT (2005) The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Nature 437:687–692

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sun Y, Giebink NC, Kanno H, et al (2006) Management of singlet and triplet excitons for efficient white organic light-emitting devices. Nature 440:908–912

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nova R (2013) Soil Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Seibert-Fohr A (ed) (2012) Judicial Independence in Transition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tytler R, Hubber P, Prain V (2013) Structuring Learning Sequences. In: Tytler R, Prain V, Hubber P, Waldrip B (eds) Constructing Representations to Learn in Science. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 51–65

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 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Tall People Are Better Hunters In The Dark. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/tall-people-are-better-hunters-in-the-dark/. Accessed 30 Oct 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) NASA: Long-Term Commitment to and Investment in Space Exploration Program Requires More Knowledge. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Magner TJ (2014) Performance and leadership in multiplayer online gaming. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Wagner J (2016) Mets’ Young Starters Come at Bargain Price in 2017. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lipton 2005).
This sentence cites two references (MacCoss and Baillie 2004; Lipton 2005).

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

Two authors: (MacCoss and Baillie 2004)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Abbreviation	Ethical Theory Moral Pract.
ISSN (print)	1386-2820
ISSN (online)	1572-8447
Scope	Philosophy Social Sciences (miscellaneous)