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

Stokstad, E. ‘PALEONTOLOGY: CT Sleuthing Uncovers Fossil Misfits’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 288, no. 5472 (9 June 2000): 1731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, Alicia E., and Ari Helenius. ‘How Viruses Enter Animal Cells’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304, no. 5668 (9 April 2004): 237–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keizer, Kees, Siegwart Lindenberg, and Linda Steg. ‘The Spreading of Disorder’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322, no. 5908 (12 December 2008): 1681–85.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nomura, Kenji, Hiromichi Ohta, Kazushige Ueda, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono. ‘Thin-Film Transistor Fabricated in Single-Crystalline Transparent Oxide Semiconductor’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300, no. 5623 (23 May 2003): 1269–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, Constance. Fibonacci Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Perroud, Thierry. Enterprise Architecture Patterns: Practical Solutions for Recurring IT-Architecture Problems. Edited by Reto Inversini. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Blankenship, Jerrel, Matthew Bussa, and Scott Millett. ‘Sprint 0: Generating the Product Backlog’. In Pro Agile .NET Development with Scrum, edited by Matthew Bussa and Scott Millett, 53–86. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2011.

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. ‘Pumping CO2 Underground Can Help Fight Climate Change. Why Is It Stuck In Second Gear?’ IFLScience. IFLScience, 13 March 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pumping-co2-underground-can-help-fight-climate-change-why-it-stuck-second-gear/.

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. ‘Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments’. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1 October 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ruby, Caitlin A. ‘Application of Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) to Remotely Operated Vehicle (Rov) Video Data for Enhanced Geospatial Analysis of Deep Sea Environments’. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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

Murphy, Mary J. O. ‘Seafood With a Scenic Distraction’. New York Times, 1 September 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference E. Stokstad, ‘PALEONTOLOGY: CT Sleuthing Uncovers Fossil Misfits’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 288, no. 5472, (9 June 2000), p. 1731, doi:10.1126/science.288.5472.1731..
This sentence cites two references E. Stokstad, ‘PALEONTOLOGY: CT Sleuthing Uncovers Fossil Misfits’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 288, no. 5472, (9 June 2000), p. 1731, doi:10.1126/science.288.5472.1731; Alicia E. Smith and Ari Helenius, ‘How Viruses Enter Animal Cells’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 304, no. 5668, (9 April 2004), pp. 237–42, doi:10.1126/science.1094823..
This sentence cites four references E. Stokstad, ‘PALEONTOLOGY: CT Sleuthing Uncovers Fossil Misfits’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 288, no. 5472, (9 June 2000), p. 1731, doi:10.1126/science.288.5472.1731; Alicia E. Smith and Ari Helenius, ‘How Viruses Enter Animal Cells’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 304, no. 5668, (9 April 2004), pp. 237–42, doi:10.1126/science.1094823; Kees Keizer, Siegwart Lindenberg, and Linda Steg, ‘The Spreading of Disorder’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 322, no. 5908, (12 December 2008), pp. 1681–85, doi:10.1126/science.1161405; Kenji Nomura et al., ‘Thin-Film Transistor Fabricated in Single-Crystalline Transparent Oxide Semiconductor’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 300, no. 5623, (23 May 2003), pp. 1269–72, doi:10.1126/science.1083212..

About the journal

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