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

Barry, C. E. (2014). Tuberculosis: Drug discovery goes au naturel. Nature, 506(7489), 436–437.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowan, N., & Rouder, J. N. (2009). Comment on “Dynamic shifts of limited working memory resources in human vision.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5916), 877; author reply 877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowler, C., Karl, D. M., & Colwell, R. R. (2009). Microbial oceanography in a sea of opportunity. Nature, 459(7244), 180–184.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pan, H., He, L., Wang, B., & Niu, W. (2014). The relationship between RAGE gene four common polymorphisms and breast cancer risk in northeastern Han Chinese. Scientific Reports, 4, 4355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ehrlich, E., & Fanelli, D. (2012). The Financial Services Marketing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hall, R. D. (2005). Russia’s Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center (D. J. Shayler & B. Vis, Eds.). Praxis.

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, K., Poernomo, I., Schmidt, H., & Jayaputera, J. (2005). A Model-Oriented Framework for Runtime Monitoring of Nonfunctional Properties. In R. Reussner, J. Mayer, J. A. Stafford, S. Overhage, S. Becker, & P. J. Schroeder (Eds.), Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality: First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2005, and Second International Workshop on Software Quality, SOQUA 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September 20-22, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 38–52). 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

Davis, J. (2015, September 17). Scientists Call For A Ban On Microbeads. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-call-ban-microbeads/

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. (2004). Highway Projects--Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects as of April 30, 2004 (GAO-04-935R). 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

Wirtz, Y. (2017). Strain Variation between the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, Southern Santa Maria Basin, California, USA: Implications for Structural Assessment of Fold and Thrust Belts [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

Gustines, G. G. (2015, March 9). Black Mask Plans YouTube Comics Channels and Animated Movies. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barry, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Barry, 2014; Cowan & Rouder, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Cowan & Rouder, 2009)
Three authors: (Bowler et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Pan et al., 2014)

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