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

Kondo S (2014) Developmental biology. Self-organizing somites. Science 343:736–737

A journal article with 2 authors

Kovach JD, Lamb RS (2014) Evolution. There can be only one. Science 343:623–624

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmith T, Johansen S, Thejll P (2007) Comment on “A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise.” Science 317:1866; author reply 1866

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tang C, Lennon EM, Fredrickson GH, et al (2008) Evolution of block copolymer lithography to highly ordered square arrays. Science 322:429–432

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matignon R (2007) Data Mining Using SAS® Enterprise Miner^TM. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Timberlake TK (2016) Classical Mechanics with Maxima, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Rega G (2012) Theoretical and Experimental Nonlinear Vibrations of Sagged Elastic Cables. In: Warminski J, Lenci S, Cartmell MP, et al. (eds) Nonlinear Dynamic Phenomena in Mechanics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 159–210

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

Luntz S (2014) Stem Cell Treatment Successfully Restores Sight. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/embryonic-stem-cells-giving-stem-sight-loss/. 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) Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied. 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

Hernandez M (2014) Successful emancipation of foster youth through the use of mentors: A grant proposal. 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

Higgins A (2016) Trump’s Putin: Strength Seen as Top Virtue. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kondo 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kovach and Lamb 2014; Kondo 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kovach and Lamb 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al. 2008)

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)