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

Hand E (2008) Plumes of methane identified on Mars. Nature 455:1018.

A journal article with 2 authors

Losos JB, Schluter D (2000) Analysis of an evolutionary species-area relationship. Nature 408:847–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gong S-S, Zhu W, Sheng DN (2014) Emergent chiral spin liquid: fractional quantum Hall effect in a kagome Heisenberg model. Sci Rep 4:6317.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schofield L, Hewitt MC, Evans K, Siomos M-A, Seeberger PH (2002) Synthetic GPI as a candidate anti-toxic vaccine in a model of malaria. Nature 418:785–789.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curioso A, Bradford R, Galbraith P (2010) Expert PHP and MySQL®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Pearson S, Yee G (eds) (2013) Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Lake P, Crowther P (2013) Relational Databases. In: Concise Guide to Databases: A Practical Introduction. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science, Crowther P (ed) Springer, London, p 69–96

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

Andrew E (2015) Biofilms – The Bacterial Wound Communities That Protect Themselves From Attack. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biofilms-bacterial-wound-communities-protect-themselves-attack/ (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 (1993) Compensatory Education: Additional Funds Help More Private School Students Receive Chapter 1 Services. 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

Kaardal JT (2017) Decoding the Computations of Sensory Neurons. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Vecsey G (2013) Back Home, Still Taking on the World. 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 (Hand 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Losos & Schluter 2000, Hand 2008).

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

Two authors: (Losos & Schluter 2000)
Three authors: (Gong et al. 2014)
99 or more authors: (Schofield et al. 2002)

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