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

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

Aubert, J. (2015). PLANETARY SCIENCE. Ancient planetary dynamos, take two. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6247), 475–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kronenberg, M., & Havran, W. L. (2014). Immunology: oiling the wheels of autoimmunity. Nature, 506(7486), 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, A. M., Tingen, C. M., & Woodruff, T. K. (2010). Sex bias in trials and treatment must end. Nature, 465(7299), 688–689.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liu, D., Wang, X., Wang, X., Tian, W., Bando, Y., & Golberg, D. (2013). Co3O4 nanocages with highly exposed {110} facets for high-performance lithium storage. Scientific Reports, 3, 2543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gonzalez, R., Qi, F., & Huang, B. (2016). Process Control System Fault Diagnosis: A Bayesian Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lio, P. A. (2015). Handbook of Integrative Dermatology: An Evidence-Based Approach (T. Patel, N. T. Peters, & S. Kasprowicz, Eds.; 1st ed. 2015). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pio-Abreu, J. L., & Oliveira, C. V. (2016). On measuring tele. In C. Stadler, M. Wieser, & K. Kirk (Eds.), Psychodrama. Empirical Research and Science 2 (pp. 41–55). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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 Moral Education.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2015, November 9). Old Mice Drinking Champagne Three Times A Week Navigate Labyrinths Better. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/old-mice-drinking-champagne-three-times-week-navigate-labyrinths-better/

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. (1988). Wallop-Breaux Trust Fund (T-RCED-88-38). 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

Morikawa, T. (2010). Aerodynamic analysis of an over-the-wing engine-mount aircraft [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

MacFARQUHAR, N. (2017, July 16). A Developer and Kremlin Fixer With a Web of Trump Contacts. 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 (Aubert, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Aubert, 2015; Kronenberg & Havran, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kronenberg & Havran, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Moral Education
Abbreviation	J. Moral Educ.
ISSN (print)	0305-7240
ISSN (online)	1465-3877
Scope	Religious studies