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

Smaglik, Paul. 2005. Generous advice. Nature 435: 241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Balskus, Emily P., and Christopher T. Walsh. 2010. The genetic and molecular basis for sunscreen biosynthesis in cyanobacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 1653–1656.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mueller, Karl, Susan E. Hough, and Roger Bilham. 2004. Analysing the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes with recent instrumentally recorded aftershocks. Nature 429: 284–288.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nakagawa, Terunaga, Yifan Cheng, Elizabeth Ramm, Morgan Sheng, and Thomas Walz. 2005. Structure and different conformational states of native AMPA receptor complexes. Nature 433: 545–549.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph, Gallant. 2012. Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook. The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Meersman, Robert, Hervé Panetto, Tharam Dillon, Michele Missikoff, Lin Liu, Oscar Pastor, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, and Timos Sellis, ed. 2014. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, and ODBASE 2014, Amantea, Italy, October 27-31, 2014, Proceedings. Vol. 8841. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Monnier, Philippe. 2011. Equipment and Instrumentation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy. In Pediatric Airway Surgery: Management of Laryngotracheal Stenosis in Infants and Children, ed. Philippe Monnier, 45–75. 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 Argumentation.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Young Galaxy Baffles Astronomers. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 26.

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. 1979. Grumman Corporation Computer Software Development Costs and Licensing Fees Paid by the Government. PSAD-79-69. 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

Mishne, Jenith. 2012. An investigation of the relationships between technology use and teachers’ self-efficacy, knowledge and experience. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Dollinger, Arielle, and Eli Rosenberg. 2017. Foster Father Acquitted Of Sex Abuse Charges. New York Times, May 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2005; Balskus and Walsh 2010).

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

Two authors: (Balskus and Walsh 2010)
Three or more authors: (Nakagawa et al. 2005)

About the journal

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