How to format your references using the Argumentation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Argumentation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kolber, Zbigniew S. 2006. Ecology. Getting a better picture of the ocean’s nitrogen budget. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1479–1480.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kruse, Ethan, and Eric Agol. 2014. KOI-3278: a self-lensing binary star system. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 275–277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, Yoshiko, Douglas Sipp, and Hideki Enomoto. 2013. Tissue interactions in neural crest cell development and disease. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 860–863.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Inoue, Mayumi, Louise Chang, Joseph Hwang, Shian-Huey Chiang, and Alan R. Saltiel. 2003. The exocyst complex is required for targeting of Glut4 to the plasma membrane by insulin. Nature 422: 629–633.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rim, Chun T., and Chris Mi. 2017. Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles and Mobile Devices. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Font-Llagunes, Josep M., ed. 2016. Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and Applications. Vol. 42. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Angehrn, Emil. 2012. Verstehendes Leben. In Life, Subjectivity & Art: Essays in Honor of Rudolf Bernet, ed. Roland Breeur and Ullrich Melle, 123–143. Phaenomenologica. 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 Argumentation.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. Australian Coins Can Now Be Lethal Weapons. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 1.

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. 1988. Estimates of Potential Savings by Retiring Two Aircraft Carriers Early. T-NSIAD-88-16. 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

Van Name, Joseph. 2013. Boolean Partition Algebras. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Etheredge, Photographs by George. 2016. Voyeur | 7 Train. New York Times, November 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kolber 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kolber 2006; Kruse and Agol 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kruse and Agol 2014)
Three or more authors: (Inoue et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Argumentation
ISSN (print)	0920-427X
ISSN (online)	1572-8374
Scope	Philosophy Linguistics and Language