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

Solomon, Susan. 2004. The hole truth. Nature 427: 289–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. 2005. Structural biology. Nature’s rotary electromotors. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 642–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acquisti, Alessandro, Laura Brandimarte, and George Loewenstein. 2015. Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347: 509–514.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Prakriya, Murali, Stefan Feske, Yousang Gwack, Sonal Srikanth, Anjana Rao, and Patrick G. Hogan. 2006. Orai1 is an essential pore subunit of the CRAC channel. Nature 443: 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan, M. M., and M. R. Islam. 2016. Zero Waste Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Salzmann, Nadine, Christian Huggel, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, and Gina Ziervogel, ed. 2016. Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – An Upstream-downstream Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pulido, Fernando, Doug McCreary, Isabel Cañellas, Mitchel McClaran, and Tobias Plieninger. 2013. Oak Regeneration: Ecological Dynamics and Restoration Techniques. In Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes: Dehesas of Spain and Ranchlands of California, ed. Pablo Campos, Lynn Huntsinger, Jose Luis Oviedo Pro, Paul F. Starrs, Mario Diaz, Richard B. Standiford, and Gregorio Montero, 123–144. Landscape Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrews, Robin. 2016. Cats Understand Basic Laws Of Physics, According To Study. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 15.

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. 1970. Overstatement of Contract Target Cost for First Stage of Saturn V Launch Vehicle. B-161366. 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

Satam, Gaurav C. 2010. The mechanical engineering approach for three dimensional modeling procedure and measurements of the heart anatomy. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Macfarlane, Isabella. 1906. Wordsworth. New York Times, March 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solomon 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Solomon 2004; Junge and Nelson 2005).

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

Two authors: (Junge and Nelson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Prakriya et al. 2006)

About the journal

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