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

Sax, D. (2010). Journal club. A conservation biologist considers the role of nature reserves in a warming world. Nature, 466(7307), 669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kessler, A., & Baldwin, I. T. (2001). Defensive function of herbivore-induced plant volatile emissions in nature. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5511), 2141–2144.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman, K. L., Helmstaedter, M., & Denk, W. (2011). Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina. Nature, 471(7337), 183–188.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tadaki, K., Iono, D., Yun, M. S., Aretxaga, I., Hatsukade, B., Hughes, D. H., et al. (2018). The gravitationally unstable gas disk of a starburst galaxy 12 billion years ago. Nature, 560(7720), 613–616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pijaudier-Cabot, G., La Borderie, C., Reess, T., Chen, W., Maurel, O., Rey-Berbeder, F., & de Ferron, A. (2016). Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Procházka, K. (Ed.). (2016). Fluorescence Studies of Polymer Containing Systems (1st ed. 2016., Vol. 16). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gim, S., Meo, I., Park, Y., & Lee, S. (2013). Drivable Road Recognition by Multilayered LiDAR and Vision. In S. Lee, H. Cho, K.-J. Yoon, & J. Lee (Eds.), Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 1 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea (pp. 43–56). 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 Science and Engineering Ethics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 7). Does Your Beard Really Contain More Poo Than A Toilet? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-beard-does-not-contain-more-poo-toilet/. 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. (1996). Hispanic Employment Statistics (No. GGD-96-85R). 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

Chan, K. (2012). Planned experiences compared to performance standards for entry-level dietetic interns (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Joy, S. (2014, May 28). New Footprints. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sax 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kessler and Baldwin 2001; Sax 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kessler and Baldwin 2001)
Three or more authors: (Tadaki et al. 2018)

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)