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

Daszak P (2010) Epidemiology. Bats, in black and white. Science 329:634–635

A journal article with 2 authors

Hidalgo C, Donoso P (2011) Cell signaling. Getting to the heart of mechanotransduction. Science 333:1388–1390

A journal article with 3 authors

Jasny BR, Zahn LM, Marshall E (2009) Complex systems and networks. Connections. Introduction. Science 325:405

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Isalan M, Lemerle C, Michalodimitrakis K, et al (2008) Evolvability and hierarchy in rewired bacterial gene networks. Nature 452:840–845

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benitez M, Davidson J, Flaxman L (2009) Small Schools, Big Ideas. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA

An edited book

Gong Z, Luo X, Chen J, et al (eds) (2011) Web Information Systems and Mining: International Conference, WISM 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bittsánszky A, Gullner G, Gyulai G, Komives T (2011) A Case Study: Uptake and Accumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Cucurbitaceae Species. In: Schröder P, Collins CD (eds) Organic Xenobiotics and Plants: From Mode of Action to Ecophysiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 77–85

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) Water-Saving Tap Makes Pretty Patterns. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/water-saving-tap-makes-pretty-patterns/. 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 (2000) Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures. 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

Rouhani M (2013) Overdose prevention and naloxone distribution: A grant project. 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) A Guide to Screen Cred. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Daszak 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Daszak 2010; Hidalgo and Donoso 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hidalgo and Donoso 2011)
Three or more authors: (Isalan 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)