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

Lovett, R. A. ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: “Spiders” Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 289, no. 5486 (15 September 2000): 1853a–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kieffer, Susan W., and Bruce M. Jakosky. ‘Planetary Science. Enceladus--Oasis or Ice Ball?’ Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5882 (13 June 2008): 1432–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Good, Matthew C., Jesse G. Zalatan, and Wendell A. Lim. ‘Scaffold Proteins: Hubs for Controlling the Flow of Cellular Information’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6030 (6 May 2011): 680–86.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chakrabarty, Deepto, Edward H. Morgan, Michael P. Muno, Duncan K. Galloway, Rudy Wijnands, Michiel Van Der Klis, and Craig B. Markwardt. ‘Nuclear-Powered Millisecond Pulsars and the Maximum Spin Frequency of Neutron Stars’. Nature 424, no. 6944 (3 July 2003): 42–44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Doeuff, René, and Mohamed El Hadi Zaïm. Rotating Electrical Machines. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Zolghadri, Ali. Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control and Guidance for Aerospace Vehicles: From Theory to Application. Edited by David Henry, Jérôme Cieslak, Denis Efimov, and Philippe Goupil. Advances in Industrial Control. London: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Catanese, Fabrizio. ‘Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry’. In Colloquium De Giorgi 2013 and 2014, edited by Umberto Zannier, 37–77. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 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

Andrew, Elise. ‘Mindfulness-Based Therapy Shown To Reduce PTSD Symptoms In Veterans’. IFLScience. IFLScience, 5 August 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mindfulness-based-therapy-shown-reduce-ptsd-symptoms-veterans/.

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. ‘Selected Information on Bypass of Local Telephone Companies’. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 14 February 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck, Jordan. ‘An Inquiry into Theory Use in HCI Research’. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. ‘World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Children Now As Deprived As After War’. New York Times, 2 June 2005.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference R. A. Lovett, ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: “Spiders” Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 289, no. 5486, (15 September 2000), pp. 1853a–54, doi:10.1126/science.289.5486.1853a..
This sentence cites two references R. A. Lovett, ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: “Spiders” Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 289, no. 5486, (15 September 2000), pp. 1853a–54, doi:10.1126/science.289.5486.1853a; Susan W. Kieffer and Bruce M. Jakosky, ‘Planetary Science. Enceladus--Oasis or Ice Ball?’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5882, (13 June 2008), pp. 1432–33, doi:10.1126/science.1159702..
This sentence cites four references R. A. Lovett, ‘PLANETARY SCIENCE: “Spiders” Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 289, no. 5486, (15 September 2000), pp. 1853a–54, doi:10.1126/science.289.5486.1853a; Susan W. Kieffer and Bruce M. Jakosky, ‘Planetary Science. Enceladus--Oasis or Ice Ball?’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5882, (13 June 2008), pp. 1432–33, doi:10.1126/science.1159702; Matthew C. Good, Jesse G. Zalatan, and Wendell A. Lim, ‘Scaffold Proteins: Hubs for Controlling the Flow of Cellular Information’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6030, (6 May 2011), pp. 680–86, doi:10.1126/science.1198701; Deepto Chakrabarty et al., ‘Nuclear-Powered Millisecond Pulsars and the Maximum Spin Frequency of Neutron Stars’, Nature 424, no. 6944, (3 July 2003), pp. 42–44, doi:10.1038/nature01732..

About the journal

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