How to format your references using the Ethics and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ethics and Education. 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

Rawlins, Emma L. 2015. “Stem Cells: Emergency Back-up for Lung Repair.” Nature 517 (7536): 556–557.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang, Fred, and Matthias Peter. 2002. “Cell Biology. Formins Set the Record Straight.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5581): 531–532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haas, Julie S., Baltazar Zavala, and Carole E. Landisman. 2011. “Activity-Dependent Long-Term Depression of Electrical Synapses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6054): 389–393.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Motoyama, E. M., G. Yu, I. M. Vishik, O. P. Vajk, P. K. Mang, and M. Greven. 2007. “Spin Correlations in the Electron-Doped High-Transition-Temperature Superconductor Nd2-XCexCuO4+/-Delta.” Nature 445 (7124): 186–189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, Daniel, and Karel Lannoo. 2004. The Euro Capital Market. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hunter, Wayne. 2008. Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods. Edited by Chittaranjan Kole. Vol. 1. Genome Mapping Genomics Animals. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Savrda, Charles E. 2008. “Zoophycos, Systematic Stratigraphic Leaking, and Lamella Stratigraphy.” In High-Resolution Approaches in Stratigraphic Paleontology, edited by P. J. Harries, 129–148. Topics in Geobiology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Ethics and Education.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Geese Fly Over Himalayas Using Rollercoaster Strategy.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/geese-fly-over-himalayas-using-rollercoaster-strategy/.

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. 1985. ADP Equipment: Buying Through GSA’s Office of Technology Plus Stores. IMTEC-86-2BR. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Love, Kristin S. 2010. “Factors Infleuncing Job Satisfaction in Nurses.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “Case of Texas Murderer Engrosses Supreme Court.” New York Times, October 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rawlins 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rawlins 2015; Chang and Peter 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chang and Peter 2002)
Three authors: (Haas, Zavala, and Landisman 2011)
4 or more authors: (Motoyama et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ethics and Education
Abbreviation	Ethics Educ.
ISSN (print)	1744-9642
ISSN (online)	1744-9650
Scope	Philosophy Education