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

Smaglik P (2004) Swatting flies. Nature 429:111.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levens D, Gupta A (2010) Molecular biology. Reliable noise. Science 327:1088–1089.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xia K, Rosakis AJ, Kanamori H (2004) Laboratory earthquakes: the sub-Rayleigh-to-supershear rupture transition. Science 303:1859–1861.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng L, Hua L, Wang W, Zhou Q, Li H (2014) On-site rapid detection of trace non-volatile inorganic explosives by stand-alone ion mobility spectrometry via acid-enhanced evaporization. Sci Rep 4:6631.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowling J (2011) Diagnostic Dermoscopy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Romeralo M, Baldauf S, Escalante R (eds) (2013) Dictyostelids: Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yasuda M, Shimoyama T, Kogure J, Yokoyama K, Koshiba T (2013) Packed Homomorphic Encryption Based on Ideal Lattices and Its Application to Biometrics. In: Security Engineering and Intelligence Informatics: CD-ARES 2013 Workshops: MoCrySEn and SeCIHD, Regensburg, Germany, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cuzzocrea A, Kittl C, Simos DE, Weippl E, Xu L (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 55–74

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

Fang J (2015) Tobacco Kills Two Out of Three Smokers. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tobacco-kills-two-out-three-smokers/ (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 (1990) Test and Evaluation: DOD’s Fiscal Year 1989 Test Resource Budget. 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

Montano M (2010) Supporting juvenile offenders reentering the community: A grant proposal project. 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

Lovett I, Healy J, Schmidt MS, Turkewitz J (2015) Friend Talked of Sleeper Cells Before Rampage. New York Times:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004, Levens & Gupta 2010).

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

Two authors: (Levens & Gupta 2010)
Three authors: (Xia et al. 2004)
99 or more authors: (Peng et al. 2014)

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