How to format your references using the Australasian Journal of Philosophy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP). 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

Dalton, Rex (2005) ‘California Stem-Cell Institute Fights Legal Challenges’, Nature 435: 544.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lendlein, Andreas and Robert Langer (2002) ‘Biodegradable, Elastic Shape-Memory Polymers for Potential Biomedical Applications’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 1673–76.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naranjo, B, J K Gimzewski, and S Putterman (2005) ‘Observation of Nuclear Fusion Driven by a Pyroelectric Crystal’, Nature 434: 1115–17.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hussein, Samer M, Nizar N Batada, Sanna Vuoristo, Reagan W Ching, Reija Autio, et al. (2011) ‘Copy Number Variation and Selection during Reprogramming to Pluripotency’, Nature 471: 58–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff, Pamela Beth (2017) Modern Spain. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Taylor, Lester D (2010) Consumer Demand in the United States: Prices, Income, and Consumption Behavior, H S Houthakker, ed. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Xiang, Peng Chen, and Li Zhu (2009) ‘The Research of Method Based on Complex Multi-Task Parallel Scheduling Problem’, in Zhihua Cai, Zhenhua Li, Zhuo Kang and Yong Liu, eds., Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems: 4th International Symposium, ISICA 2009, Huangshi, China, October 23-25, 2009. Proceedings: 25–34. 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 Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise (2015) ‘#ILookLikeAnEngineer Shines A Welcome Light On Industry’s Diversity’, IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ilooklikeanengineer-shines-welcome-light-industrys-diversity/.

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 (2008) Transportation Security: Transportation Worker Identification Credential: A Status Update. 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

Allard, Ivy N (2010) Examining the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Performance: Moderators of Culture Gap. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ, Northcentral 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

Slater, Kelly (2010) ‘Quotation of the Day’, New York Times 14 March, A3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lendlein and Langer 2002; Dalton 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lendlein and Langer 2002)
Three authors: (Naranjo, Gimzewski, and Putterman 2005)
4 or more authors: (Hussein, Batada, et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australasian Journal of Philosophy
ISSN (print)	0004-8402
ISSN (online)	1471-6828
Scope