How to format your references using the Ethics and Information Technology citation style

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

Abbott, A. (2011). Dementia: a problem for our age. Nature, 475(7355), S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan, W.-B., & Fan, H. (2014). Single-photon quantum router with multiple output ports. Scientific reports, 4, 4820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, B. M., Finn, K. J., & Li, J. J. (2010). Loss of DNA replication control is a potent inducer of gene amplification. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5994), 943–946.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sidorenko, A., Krupenkin, T., Taylor, A., Fratzl, P., & Aizenberg, J. (2007). Reversible switching of hydrogel-actuated nanostructures into complex micropatterns. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5811), 487–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser, J., & Simkins, B. J. (2009). Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nakamura, S., & Kondo, Y. (Eds.). (2009). Waste Input-Output Analysis: Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology (Vol. 26). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Genovese, V., Garg, D., & Rispoli, D. (2013). Labeled Goal-Directed Search in Access Control Logic. In A. Jøsang, P. Samarati, & M. Petrocchi (Eds.), Security and Trust Management: 8th International Workshop, STM 2012, Pisa, Italy, September 13-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 65–80). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Information Technology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 24). How We Found Signs Of ‘Recent’ Running Water On Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-we-found-signs-recent-running-water-mars/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2012). Information Technology: SBA Needs to Strengthen Oversight of Its Loan Management and Accounting System Modernization (No. GAO-12-295). 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

Newsom, S. M. (2012). Love and Creativity: A Shared Dynamic (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Burghardt, L. F. (2006, June 4). Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times, p. 14WC7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2011; Yan and Fan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yan and Fan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sidorenko et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ethics and Information Technology
Abbreviation	Ethics Inf. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1388-1957
ISSN (online)	1572-8439
Scope	Computer Science Applications Library and Information Sciences