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

Allen, K. A. (2015). Geochemistry: When carbon escaped from the sea. Nature, 518(7538), 176–177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, B. H., & Kwon, J. W. (2014). Metal catalyst for low-temperature growth of controlled zinc oxide nanowires on arbitrary substrates. Scientific reports, 4, 4379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, H., Li, Y., & Tsien, R. W. (2012). Influence of synaptic vesicle position on release probability and exocytotic fusion mode. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6074), 1362–1366.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sakurai, Y., Itou, M., Barbiellini, B., Mijnarends, P. E., Markiewicz, R. S., Kaprzyk, S., et al. (2011). Imaging doped holes in a cuprate superconductor with high-resolution Compton scattering. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6030), 698–702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flynn, M. J., & Luk, W. (2011). Computer System Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zahle, J., & Collin, F. (Eds.). (2014). Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science (Vol. 372). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, K., & Terakawa, S. (2013). Myelin Sheath with a New Type of Fine Structure Found in the Nervous System of Penaeus Shrimp, an Invertebrate. In S. Terakawa (Ed.), Myelinated Fibers and Saltatory Conduction in the Shrimp: The Fastest Impulse Conduction in the Animal Kingdom (pp. 35–45). Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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

Fang, J. (2014, September 16). Human Language Gene Speeds Up Learning in Mice. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/human-language-gene-speeds-learning-mice/. 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. (1998). Transportation Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-98-18(2)). 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

Joseph, O. W. (2009). A study of the effectiveness of mentor roles in a rural school district (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Barnard, A., Hubbard, B., & Fisher, I. (2017, April 15). As Atrocities Mount in Syria, Justice Seems Out of Reach. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Allen 2015; Kim and Kwon 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Kwon 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sakurai et al. 2011)

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)