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

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

Yamanaka, S. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Of mice and humans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6019), 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zindl, C. L., & Chaplin, D. D. (2010). Immunology. Tumor immune evasion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5979), 697–698.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryant, P., Nunes, T., & Snaith, R. (2000). Children learn an untaught rule of spelling. Nature, 403(6766), 157–158.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rohling, E. J., Marsh, R., Wells, N. C., Siddall, M., & Edwards, N. R. (2004). Similar meltwater contributions to glacial sea level changes from Antarctic and northern ice sheets. Nature, 430(7003), 1016–1021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger, H. (2017). Enzyme Kinetics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Satapathy, S. C., Avadhani, P. S., Udgata, S. K., & Lakshminarayana, S. (Eds.). (2014). ICT and Critical Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India- Vol I: Hosted by CSI Vishakapatnam Chapter (Vol. 248). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dastani, M., Floor, C., & Meyer, J.-J. C. (2014). Programming Agents with Emotions. In T. Bosse, J. Broekens, J. Dias, & J. van der Zwaan (Eds.), Emotion Modeling: Towards Pragmatic Computational Models of Affective Processes (pp. 57–75). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Academic Ethics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, August 13). Shy Bird Disguises Itself As Aggressive Woodpecker To Avoid Bullying. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shy-bird-disguises-itself-aggressive-woodpecker-avoid-bullying/. 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. (2014). Higher Education: Education Should Strengthen Oversight of Schools and Accreditors [Reissued on January 22, 2015] (No. GAO-15-59). 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

Navarro, C. (2012). Advocacy services for high-risk Latino families caring for children with autism: A grant proposal (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

Feeney, K. (2007, September 9). Beachfront Cafe. New York Times, p. 14NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yamanaka 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Yamanaka 2011; Zindl and Chaplin 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zindl and Chaplin 2010)
Three or more authors: (Rohling et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Academic Ethics
Abbreviation	J. Acad. Ethics
ISSN (print)	1570-1727
ISSN (online)	1572-8544
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Philosophy Education Sociology and Political Science