How to format your references using the Ethics and Social Welfare citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ethics and Social Welfare. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kirchner, James W. 2002. “Evolutionary Speed Limits Inferred from the Fossil Record.” Nature 415 (6867): 65–68.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eccleston, Alex, and Magdalena Skipper. 2009. “Transcribing the Genome.” Nature 461 (7261): 185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wake, Hiroaki, Philip R. Lee, and R. Douglas Fields. 2011. “Control of Local Protein Synthesis and Initial Events in Myelination by Action Potentials.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6049): 1647–1651.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hou, Xian-Guang, Derek J. Siveter, Richard J. Aldridge, and David J. Siveter. 2008. “Collective Behavior in an Early Cambrian Arthropod.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5899): 224.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Searle, S. R. 1997. Linear Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pérez Cañado, María Luisa, ed. 2013. Competency-Based Language Teaching in Higher Education. Vol. 14. Educational Linguistics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Shah, Shiwan K., Shawn P. E. Nishi, and Gulshan Sharma. 2012. “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Older Patients.” In Aging and Lung Disease: A Clinical Guide, edited by Margaret Pisani, 63–87. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Social Welfare.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “The Best Planet Duo Of 2015 - Venus And Jupiter.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2013. Higher Education: Experts Cited a Range of Requirements as Burdensome. GAO-13-371. 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

Butler-Roberts, Jessica. 2017. “Fashioning Distinction: Construction of Identity through Dress and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Paris.” 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

Murphy, Mary J. O. 2015. “Remembering ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.’” New York Times, September 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirchner 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kirchner 2002; Eccleston and Skipper 2009).

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

Two authors: (Eccleston and Skipper 2009)
Three authors: (Wake, Lee, and Fields 2011)
4 or more authors: (Hou et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ethics and Social Welfare
Abbreviation	Ethics Soc. Welf.
ISSN (print)	1749-6535
ISSN (online)	1749-6543
Scope	Philosophy Sociology and Political Science