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

Du Pasquier, Louis. ‘Immunology. Insects Diversify One Molecule to Serve Two Systems’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, no. 5742 (16 September 2005): 1826–27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krengel, Ute, and Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield. ‘Biochemistry. Coping with Oxidative Stress’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6218 (9 January 2015): 125–26.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naundorf, Björn, Fred Wolf, and Maxim Volgushev. ‘Unique Features of Action Potential Initiation in Cortical Neurons’. Nature 440, no. 7087 (20 April 2006): 1060–63.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lum, P. Y., G. Singh, A. Lehman, T. Ishkanov, M. Vejdemo-Johansson, M. Alagappan, J. Carlsson, and G. Carlsson. ‘Extracting Insights from the Shape of Complex Data Using Topology’. Scientific Reports 3 (7 February 2013): 1236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens, Hugo S. L. C. Performance Based Building Design 2. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

Kuenzer, Claudia, and Stefan Dech, eds. Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing: Sensors, Methods, Applications. Vol. 17. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson, Dennis L. ‘Life Among the Ruins’. In Volunteers of America, edited by Dennis L. Carlson, 51–67. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012.

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. ‘When Exploding Whales Goes Horribly Wrong’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 30 April 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-exploding-whales-goes-horribly-wrong/.

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. ‘Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Operational Test and Evaluation Costs’. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 28 January 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coleman, Eric D. ‘The Nature of Leadership: A Case Study of Distributed Leadership Amidst A Participative Change Effort’. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2014.

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

Kelly, Michael. ‘Merely Mortal; Bunch That Lunched On Democrats Is Missing Its Edge’. New York Times, 27 September 1992.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference Louis Du Pasquier, ‘Immunology. Insects Diversify One Molecule to Serve Two Systems’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, no. 5742, (16 September 2005), pp. 1826–27, doi:10.1126/science.1118828..
This sentence cites two references Louis Du Pasquier, ‘Immunology. Insects Diversify One Molecule to Serve Two Systems’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, no. 5742, (16 September 2005), pp. 1826–27, doi:10.1126/science.1118828; Ute Krengel and Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield, ‘Biochemistry. Coping with Oxidative Stress’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6218, (9 January 2015), pp. 125–26, doi:10.1126/science.aaa3602..
This sentence cites four references Louis Du Pasquier, ‘Immunology. Insects Diversify One Molecule to Serve Two Systems’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, no. 5742, (16 September 2005), pp. 1826–27, doi:10.1126/science.1118828; Ute Krengel and Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield, ‘Biochemistry. Coping with Oxidative Stress’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6218, (9 January 2015), pp. 125–26, doi:10.1126/science.aaa3602; Björn Naundorf, Fred Wolf, and Maxim Volgushev, ‘Unique Features of Action Potential Initiation in Cortical Neurons’, Nature 440, no. 7087, (20 April 2006), pp. 1060–63, doi:10.1038/nature04610; P. Y. Lum et al., ‘Extracting Insights from the Shape of Complex Data Using Topology’, Scientific Reports 3, (7 February 2013), p. 1236, doi:10.1038/srep01236..

About the journal

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