How to format your references using the Ethical Theory and Moral Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 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

Fuchs ERH (2014) Economics. Global manufacturing and the future of technology. Science 345:519–520

A journal article with 2 authors

Zwierlein MW, Ketterle W (2006) Comment on “Pairing and phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas.” Science 314:54; author reply 54

A journal article with 3 authors

Borsa AA, Agnew DC, Cayan DR (2014) Remote Hydrology. Ongoing drought-induced uplift in the western United States. Science 345:1587–1590

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wilman RJ, Gerssen J, Bower RG, et al (2005) The discovery of a galaxy-wide superwind from a young massive galaxy at redshift z approximately 3. Nature 436:227–229

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McConnell J (2011) Index of Medical Imaging. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Nakamura Y, Li-Beisson Y (eds) (2016) Lipids in Plant and Algae Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Matsuura K (2009) Productivity Space of Information Security in an Extension of the Gordon-Loeb’s InvestmentModel. In: Johnson ME (ed) Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 99–119

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 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Researchers Produce The First Synthetic Gasoline From Plants. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/researchers-produce-first-synthetic-plant-gasoline/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1990) Truck Safety: Need to Better Ensure Correction of Serious Inspection Violations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morales D (2017) Understanding How Perceptions of School Leadership and School Community Relationships Affected Veteran Teachers’ Decisions to Remain Working in Urban Elementary Schools. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Cowen T (2015) Open Markets, but Maybe Not Open Minds. New York Times BU6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Fuchs 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Zwierlein and Ketterle 2006; Fuchs 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zwierlein and Ketterle 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wilman et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Abbreviation	Ethical Theory Moral Pract.
ISSN (print)	1386-2820
ISSN (online)	1572-8447
Scope	Philosophy Social Sciences (miscellaneous)