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 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

Charron, Dominique J. ‘Obituary: Jean Dausset (1916-2009)’. Nature 460, no. 7253 (16 July 2009): 338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crompton, Robin Huw, and Todd C. Pataky. ‘Anthropology. Stepping Out’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323, no. 5918 (27 February 2009): 1174–75.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ando, Ryoko, Hideaki Mizuno, and Atsushi Miyawaki. ‘Regulated Fast Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling Observed by Reversible Protein Highlighting’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, no. 5700 (19 November 2004): 1370–73.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chaimanee, Yaowalak, Dominique Jolly, Mouloud Benammi, Paul Tafforeau, Danielle Duzer, Issam Moussa, and Jean-Jacques Jaeger. ‘A Middle Miocene Hominoid from Thailand and Orangutan Origins’. Nature 422, no. 6927 (6 March 2003): 61–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zigangirov, Kamil Sh. Theory of Code Division Multiple Access Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

An edited book

Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi. Carbon-Based Membranes for Separation Processes. Edited by Dipak Rana, Takeshi Matsuura, and Henry C. Foley. New York, NY: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Stevens, Gunnar, Volkmar Pipek, and Volker Wulf. ‘Appropriation Infrastructure: Supporting the Design of Usages’. In End-User Development: 2nd International Symposium, IS-EUD 2009, Siegen, Germany, March 2-4, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Volkmar Pipek, Mary Beth Rosson, Boris de Ruyter, and Volker Wulf, 50–69. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

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

Andrew, Elise. ‘A Matter Of Degrees: Why 2C Warming Is Officially Unsafe’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 27 May 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/matter-degrees-why-2c-warming-officially-unsafe/.

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. ‘Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force’. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 25 May 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bhavsar, Krupa S. ‘Application of Wavelet on Quasi-Periodic Physiologic Signals’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

Hartman, Susan. ‘A Subway Singer in the Spotlight’. New York Times, 18 September 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference Dominique J. Charron, ‘Obituary: Jean Dausset (1916-2009)’, Nature 460, no. 7253, (16 July 2009), p. 338, doi:10.1038/460338a..
This sentence cites two references Dominique J. Charron, ‘Obituary: Jean Dausset (1916-2009)’, Nature 460, no. 7253, (16 July 2009), p. 338, doi:10.1038/460338a; Robin Huw Crompton and Todd C. Pataky, ‘Anthropology. Stepping Out’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 323, no. 5918, (27 February 2009), pp. 1174–75, doi:10.1126/science.1170916..
This sentence cites four references Dominique J. Charron, ‘Obituary: Jean Dausset (1916-2009)’, Nature 460, no. 7253, (16 July 2009), p. 338, doi:10.1038/460338a; Robin Huw Crompton and Todd C. Pataky, ‘Anthropology. Stepping Out’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 323, no. 5918, (27 February 2009), pp. 1174–75, doi:10.1126/science.1170916; Ryoko Ando, Hideaki Mizuno, and Atsushi Miyawaki, ‘Regulated Fast Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling Observed by Reversible Protein Highlighting’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, no. 5700, (19 November 2004), pp. 1370–73, doi:10.1126/science.1102506; Yaowalak Chaimanee et al., ‘A Middle Miocene Hominoid from Thailand and Orangutan Origins’, Nature 422, no. 6927, (6 March 2003), pp. 61–65, doi:10.1038/nature01449..

About the journal

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