How to format your references using the Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics citation style

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

Weissman P (2015) Planetary science: Sink holes and dust jets on comet 67P. Nature 523:42–43.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merikangas KR, Risch N (2003) Genomic priorities and public health. Science 302:599–601.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noborisaka J, Nishiguchi K, Fujiwara A (2014) Electric tuning of direct-indirect optical transitions in silicon. Sci Rep 4:6950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Dellen A, Blakemore C, Deacon R, York D, Hannan AJ (2000) Delaying the onset of Huntington’s in mice. Nature 404:721–722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitra A (2008) Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Timilsina GR, Zilberman D (eds) (2014) The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty: A Global Perspective. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Richards E (2005) British Diaspora. In: Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Ember M, Ember CR, Skoggard I (eds) Springer US, Boston, MA, p 47–56

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 in Science and Environmental Politics.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Intense Underground Stress Forces Mountains To Sprout On Io. https://www.iflscience.com/space/intense-underground-stress-forces-mountains-sprout-io/ (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 (1992) NASA 5-Year Planning. 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

Ballan AO (2015) The selfie generation: Students’ perceptions of classroom incivility in social work education. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Walsh MW (2011) Robert A. Pritzker, 85; Led Family Business. New York Times:B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weissman 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Merikangas & Risch 2003, Weissman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Merikangas & Risch 2003)
Three authors: (Noborisaka et al. 2014)
99 or more authors: (van Dellen et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics
Abbreviation	Ethics Sci. Environ. Polit.
ISSN (print)	1863-5415
ISSN (online)	1611-8014
Scope	Philosophy Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Education Sociology and Political Science