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

Sykes, M. V. (2008). Planetary science. The planet debate continues. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871), 1765.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, H. Y., & Gao, X. (2013). A universal protein tag for delivery of SiRNA-aptamer chimeras. Scientific Reports, 3, 3129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Urban, F. E., Cole, J. E., & Overpeck, J. T. (2000). Influence of mean climate change on climate variability from a 155-year tropical Pacific coral record. Nature, 407(6807), 989–993.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Waller, R. F., Keeling, P. J., van Dooren, G. G., & McFadden, G. I. (2003). Comment on “A green algal apicoplast ancestor.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5629), 49; author reply 49.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gunn, A., & Pitt, S. J. (2012). Parasitology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Komatineni, S. (2013). Expert Android (D. MacLean, Ed.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Abidi, N., Klawonn, F., & Thumfart, J. O. (2013). Time Point Estimation of a Single Sample from High Throughput Experiments Based on Time-Resolved Data and Robust Correlation Measures. In A. Tucker, F. Höppner, A. Siebes, & S. Swift (Eds.), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XII: 12th International Symposium, IDA 2013, London, UK, October 17-19, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 32–43). Springer.

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

Andrew, D. (2017, January 27). Here Are The “Smartest” Dog Breeds, According To A Psychologist. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/here-are-the-smartest-dog-breeds-according-to-a-psychologist/

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. (2011). Nextgen Air Transportation System: Mechanisms for Collaboration and Technology Transfer Could Be Enhanced to More Fully Leverage Partner Agency and Industry Resources (GAO-11-604). 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

Luce, G. R. (2015). British viola repertoire of the first half of the twentieth century [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Feeney, K. (2010, October 3). Burgers With Attitude. New York Times, NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sykes, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Liu & Gao, 2013; Sykes, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Gao, 2013)
Three authors: (Urban et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Waller et al., 2003)

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