How to format your references using the International Journal of Ethics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Ethics 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 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

Service, Robert F. 2008. Problem solved* (*sort of). Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 784–786.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gottifredi, V., and C. Prives. 2001. Molecular biology. Getting p53 out of the nucleus. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 1851–1852.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dean, Rebecca, Michael B. Bonsall, and Tommaso Pizzari. 2007. Evolution. Aging and sexual conflict. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 383–384.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Arakawa, K., K. Ono, M. Isshiki, K. Mimura, M. Uchikoshi, and H. Mori. 2007. Observation of the one-dimensional diffusion of nanometer-sized dislocation loops. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 956–959.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karlson, Bo, Aurelian Bria, Jonas Lind, Peter Lönnqvist, and Cristian Norlin. 2005. Wireless Foresight. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Timmer, Susan, and Anthony Urquiza, ed. 2014. Evidence-Based Approaches for the Treatment of Maltreated Children: Considering core components and treatment effectiveness. Vol. 3. Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ellis-Monaghan, Joanna A., and Iain Moffatt. 2013. Applications to Knot Theory. In Graphs on Surfaces: Dualities, Polynomials, and Knots, ed. Iain Moffatt, 101–131. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. New York, NY: 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 International Journal of Ethics Education.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. Medical Marijuana Shows Promise Against Autoimmune Diseases. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 5.

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. 1993. Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. IV, No. 5. 149426. 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

Siczek, Megan Margaret. 2014. Negotiating Socioacademic Space: The Lived Experience of International Second-Language Students in a Mainstream First-year Writing Course. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2006. QUICK BITE/Cranford; Endless Options in a Wrap. New York Times, November 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gottifredi and Prives 2001; Service 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gottifredi and Prives 2001)
Three or more authors: (Arakawa et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Ethics Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ethics Educ.
ISSN (print)	2363-9997
ISSN (online)	2364-0006
Scope