How to format your references using the International Journal of Ethics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Ethics Education. 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

Kamel, Freya. 2013. Epidemiology. Paths from pesticides to Parkinson’s. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 722–723.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gann, Alexander, and Jan Witkowski. 2010. The lost correspondence of Francis Crick. Nature 467: 519–524.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winkler, Wade, Ali Nahvi, and Ronald R. Breaker. 2002. Thiamine derivatives bind messenger RNAs directly to regulate bacterial gene expression. Nature 419: 952–956.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ma, Runlin Z., Jianfeng Gao, Nathan D. Meeker, Parley D. Fillmore, Kenneth S. K. Tung, Takeshi Watanabe, James F. Zachary, Halina Offner, Elizabeth P. Blankenhorn, and Cory Teuscher. 2002. Identification of Bphs, an autoimmune disease locus, as histamine receptor H1. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 620–623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, Kirk A., and John J. Paschkewitz. 2016. Next Generation HALT and HASS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bahadori, Mehdi N. 2014. Wind Towers: Architecture, Climate and Sustainability. Edited by Alireza Dehghani-sanij and Ali Sayigh. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Arvind, Gaysu R. 2012. Deliberative Democracy, People’s Agency and Education. In Politics, Participation & Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community, ed. Richard C. Mitchell and Shannon A. Moore, 63–82. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 International Journal of Ethics Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Nasty Star Has Cosmic Temper Tantrum. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 26.

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. 2014. Whistleblower Protection Program: Opportunities Exist for OSHA and DOT to Strengthen Collaborative Mechanisms. GAO-14-286. 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

Dickson, Beret. 2008. Yielding architecture: A manifesto for [urban + agri]culture. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2016. A Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle. New York Times, April 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kamel 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gann and Witkowski 2010; Kamel 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gann and Witkowski 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Ethics Education
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ethics Educ.
ISSN (print)	2363-9997
ISSN (online)	2364-0006
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