How to format your references using the Science and Engineering Ethics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science and Engineering Ethics. 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

Garwin, L. (2005). Schrödinger’s mousetrap. Part 4. Nature, 433(7026), 579.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melbourne, T. I., & Webb, F. H. (2003). Geophysics. Slow but not quite silent. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1886–1887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fashami, M. S., Atulasimha, J., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2013). Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching. Scientific reports, 3, 3204.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Blakemore, C., Dawkins, R., Noble, D., & Yudkin, M. (2003). Is a scientific boycott ever justified? Nature, 421(6921), 314.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Del Pico, W. J. (2014). Electrical Estimating Methods. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Byham-Gray, L. D., Burrowes, J. D., & Chertow, G. M. (Eds.). (2014). Nutrition in Kidney Disease (2nd ed. 2014.). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

van Velzen, C., Bezzina, C., & Lorist, P. (2009). Partnerships Between Schools and Teacher Education Institutes. In A. Swennen & M. van der Klink (Eds.), Becoming a Teacher Educator: Theory and Practice for Teacher Educators (pp. 59–73). 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 Science and Engineering Ethics.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, July 21). The “World’s Saddest Polar Bear” Lives In A Chinese Mall. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-worlds-saddest-polar-bear-lives-in-a-chinese-mall-/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2001). Serving the Congress and the Nation: Information Technology Information (No. GAO-01-413SP). 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

Tornes, I. E. (2006). Topics in the Physics of Underdamped Josephson Systems (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, June 23). Terrors of an Unfixed Reality. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garwin 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Garwin 2005; Melbourne and Webb 2003).

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

Two authors: (Melbourne and Webb 2003)
Three or more authors: (Blakemore et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Science and Engineering Ethics
Abbreviation	Sci. Eng. Ethics
ISSN (print)	1353-3452
ISSN (online)	1471-5546
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Health Policy Issues, ethics and legal aspects Health(social science)