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

Hill, Matthew. ‘Perspective: Be Clear about the Real Risks’. Nature 525, no. 7570 (24 September 2015): S14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiss, Robert, and Joanne Bourgeois. ‘Geology. Understanding Sediments--Reducing Tsunami Risk’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6085 (1 June 2012): 1117–18.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwak, Geonhui, Johan Ko, and Hyunchul Ju. ‘Effects of Porous Properties on Cold-Start Behavior of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells from Sub-Zero to Normal Operating Temperatures’. Scientific Reports 4 (29 August 2014): 5770.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gai, Ying-Ping, Yi-Qun Li, Fang-Yue Guo, Chuan-Zhong Yuan, Yao-Yao Mo, Hua-Liang Zhang, Hong Wang, and Xian-Ling Ji. ‘Analysis of Phytoplasma-Responsive SRNAs Provide Insight into the Pathogenic Mechanisms of Mulberry Yellow Dwarf Disease’. Scientific Reports 4 (20 June 2014): 5378.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singleton, Tommie W., and Aaron J. Singleton. Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Balinsky, Alexander A. The Analysis and Geometry of Hardy’s Inequality. Edited by W. Desmond Evans and Roger T. Lewis. Universitext. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Martín, M. Elena, M. Luz Sánchez, Aurora Muñoz-Losa, Ignacio Fdez. Galván, and Manuel A. Aguilar. ‘Accelerating QM/MM Calculations by Using the Mean Field Approximation’. In Quantum Modeling of Complex Molecular Systems, edited by Jean-Louis Rivail, Manuel Ruiz-Lopez, and Xavier Assfeld, 135–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

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

Hale, Tom. ‘Australia Is Moving And It’s Upsetting Its GPS Coordinates’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 3 October 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australia-is-moving-and-its-upsetting-its-gps-coordinates/.

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. ‘Social Security Administration: Improved Planning and Performance Measures Are Needed to Help Ensure Successful Technology Modernization’. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 26 April 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vande Voort, Pamela S. ‘A Phenomenological Exploration of Faculty Experiences Using Lecture Capture Systems’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2013.

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

Sisario, Ben. ‘Music Distributor Helps Artists With a Tricky Part: Splitting Royalties’. New York Times, 5 February 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference Matthew Hill, ‘Perspective: Be Clear about the Real Risks’, Nature 525, no. 7570, (24 September 2015), p. S14, doi:10.1038/525S14a..
This sentence cites two references Matthew Hill, ‘Perspective: Be Clear about the Real Risks’, Nature 525, no. 7570, (24 September 2015), p. S14, doi:10.1038/525S14a; Robert Weiss and Joanne Bourgeois, ‘Geology. Understanding Sediments--Reducing Tsunami Risk’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6085, (1 June 2012), pp. 1117–18, doi:10.1126/science.1221452..
This sentence cites four references Matthew Hill, ‘Perspective: Be Clear about the Real Risks’, Nature 525, no. 7570, (24 September 2015), p. S14, doi:10.1038/525S14a; Robert Weiss and Joanne Bourgeois, ‘Geology. Understanding Sediments--Reducing Tsunami Risk’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6085, (1 June 2012), pp. 1117–18, doi:10.1126/science.1221452; Geonhui Gwak, Johan Ko, and Hyunchul Ju, ‘Effects of Porous Properties on Cold-Start Behavior of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells from Sub-Zero to Normal Operating Temperatures’, Scientific Reports 4, (29 August 2014), p. 5770, doi:10.1038/srep05770; Ying-Ping Gai et al., ‘Analysis of Phytoplasma-Responsive SRNAs Provide Insight into the Pathogenic Mechanisms of Mulberry Yellow Dwarf Disease’, Scientific Reports 4, (20 June 2014), p. 5378, doi:10.1038/srep05378..

About the journal

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