How to format your references using the Ecclesial Practices citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ecclesial Practices. 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 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

Leary, R. H. ‘Energy Landscapes. Flirting with Catastrophe’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5537 (14 September 2001): 2013–14.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neill, Luke A. J., and D. Grahame Hardie. ‘Metabolism of Inflammation Limited by AMPK and Pseudo-Starvation’. Nature 493, no. 7432 (17 January 2013): 346–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wagner, Daniel E., Irving E. Wang, and Peter W. Reddien. ‘Clonogenic Neoblasts Are Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells That Underlie Planarian Regeneration’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6031 (13 May 2011): 811–16.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yeung, Tony, Mauricio Terebiznik, Liming Yu, John Silvius, Wasif M. Abidi, Mark Philips, Tim Levine, Andras Kapus, and Sergio Grinstein. ‘Receptor Activation Alters Inner Surface Potential during Phagocytosis’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5785 (21 July 2006): 347–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iyengar, S. Sitharama, Nandan Parameshwaran, Vir V. Phoha, N. Balakrishnan, and Chuka D. Okoye. Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Inter-American Development Bank. Saving for Development: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Save More and Better. Edited by Eduardo Cavallo and Tomás Serebrisky. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Sallusto, Federica, Alfonso Martín-Fontecha, and Antonio Lanzavecchia. ‘Dendritic Cell Traffic Control by Chemokines’. In Chemokine Biology — Basic Research and Clinical Application: Volume I: Immunobiology of Chemokines, edited by Bernhard Moser, Gordon L. Letts, and Kuldeep Neote, 79–89. Progress in Inflammation Research. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006.

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 Ecclesial Practices.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. ‘Why Is New Zealand Experiencing Powerful Earthquakes At The Moment?’ IFLScience. IFLScience, 14 November 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-zealand-powerful-earthquakes/.

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. ‘Cooperative Research: Results of U.S.-Industry Partnership to Develop a New Generation of Vehicles’. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 30 March 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arntson, Jay D. ‘Heidegger and Disclosive Rhetoric: Two Divergent Paths in Immanence and Transcendence’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. ‘Chandeliers’. New York Times, 21 October 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference R. H. Leary, ‘Energy Landscapes. Flirting with Catastrophe’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5537, (14 September 2001), pp. 2013–14, doi:10.1126/science.1065303..
This sentence cites two references R. H. Leary, ‘Energy Landscapes. Flirting with Catastrophe’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5537, (14 September 2001), pp. 2013–14, doi:10.1126/science.1065303; Luke A. J. O’Neill and D. Grahame Hardie, ‘Metabolism of Inflammation Limited by AMPK and Pseudo-Starvation’, Nature 493, no. 7432, (17 January 2013), pp. 346–55, doi:10.1038/nature11862..
This sentence cites four references R. H. Leary, ‘Energy Landscapes. Flirting with Catastrophe’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, no. 5537, (14 September 2001), pp. 2013–14, doi:10.1126/science.1065303; Luke A. J. O’Neill and D. Grahame Hardie, ‘Metabolism of Inflammation Limited by AMPK and Pseudo-Starvation’, Nature 493, no. 7432, (17 January 2013), pp. 346–55, doi:10.1038/nature11862; Daniel E. Wagner, Irving E. Wang, and Peter W. Reddien, ‘Clonogenic Neoblasts Are Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells That Underlie Planarian Regeneration’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6031, (13 May 2011), pp. 811–16, doi:10.1126/science.1203983; Tony Yeung et al., ‘Receptor Activation Alters Inner Surface Potential during Phagocytosis’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5785, (21 July 2006), pp. 347–51, doi:10.1126/science.1129551..

About the journal

Full journal title	Ecclesial Practices
ISSN (print)	2214-4463
ISSN (online)	2214-4471
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