How to format your references using the Monash Bioethics Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Monash Bioethics Review. 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

Knoepfler, Paul. 2009. Journal club. A cell biologist looks at the risk and promise of a new insight into stem cells and cancer. Nature 457: 361.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stern, S. A., and P. R. Weissman. 2001. Rapid collisional evolution of comets during the formation of the Oort cloud. Nature 409: 589–591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turi, László, Wen-Shyan Sheu, and Peter J. Rossky. 2005. Characterization of excess electrons in water-cluster anions by quantum simulations. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 914–917.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Yongjin, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, Xinggong Kong, Xiaohua Shao, Shitao Chen, Jiangyin Wu, Xiouyang Jiang, Xianfeng Wang, and Zhisheng An. 2008. Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years. Nature 451: 1090–1093.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunlop, John, Demessie Girma, and James Irvine. 2013. Digital Mobile Communications and the Tetra System. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schmidt, Corina. 2008. The Role of Wnt Signalling in the Development of Somites and Neural Crest. Edited by Imelda McGonnell, Steve Allen, and Ketan Patel. Vol. 195. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bowen, Jonathan P. 2013. A Relational Approach to an Algebraic Community: From Paul Erdős to He Jifeng. In Theories of Programming and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, ed. Zhiming Liu, Jim Woodcock, and Huibiao Zhu, 54–66. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Monash Bioethics Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2016. How The Power To Control Objects With Our Minds Stopped Being Science Fiction. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 25.

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. 1973. Propriety of Additional Reimbursement for Shipment of Household Effects. B-178505. 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

Sakalli Gumus, Suad. 2008. Preparing teachers for partnering with families: Examining the impact of a specifically designed curriculum on professionals. Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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

Hodara, Susan. 2015. Art Rooted in Matters of the Heart and the Mind. New York Times, April 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knoepfler 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Stern and Weissman 2001; Knoepfler 2009).

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

Two authors: (Stern and Weissman 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Monash Bioethics Review
Abbreviation	Monash Bioeth. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1321-2753
ISSN (online)	1836-6716
Scope	General Medicine