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

Basu, Shantanu. 2012. Astronomy. Brown-dwarf origins. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337: 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, Jeffrey S., and Mary L. Kraft. 2008. Chemistry. Synchronized self-assembly. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 620–621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hastings, I. M., P. G. Bray, and S. A. Ward. 2002. Parasitology. A requiem for chloroquine. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298: 74–75.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, H., A. Chroneos, C. A. Londos, E. N. Sgourou, and U. Schwingenschlögl. 2014. Carbon related defects in irradiated silicon revisited. Scientific reports 4: 4909.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Werner, Marion. 2015. Global Displacements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hauser, John R., ed. 2009. Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Engineering Models. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Kowada, Luis Antonio B., Rodrigo de A. Hausen, and Celina M. H. de Figueiredo. 2010. Bounds on the Transposition Distance for Lonely Permutations. In Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: 5th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 31-September 3, 2010. Proceedings, ed. Carlos E. Ferreira, Satoru Miyano, and Peter F. Stadler, 35–46. 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. 2015. Greenland Glacier Just Shed A Chunk Of Ice The Size Of Manhattan. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 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. 2004. Rail Security: Some Actions Taken to Enhance Passenger and Freight Rail Security, but Significant Challenges Remain. GAO-04-598T. 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

Aiken, Juliet. 2009. Virtually a leader: Mitigating process losses through shared team states. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: 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

Wyndham, Susan. 2017. The Circles of Hellhaus. New York Times, September 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basu 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Kraft 2008; Basu 2012).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Kraft 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

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