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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 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

Collins, Gareth S. 2012. “Geochemistry. Moonstruck Magnetism.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6073): 1176–1177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tokuriki, Nobuhiko, and Dan S. Tawfik. 2009. “Protein Dynamism and Evolvability.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5924): 203–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liotta, Lance A., Mauro Ferrari, and Emanuel Petricoin. 2003. “Clinical Proteomics: Written in Blood.” Nature 425 (6961): 905.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Melchinger, Albrecht E., Wolfgang Schipprack, Tobias Würschum, Shaojiang Chen, and Frank Technow. 2013. “Rapid and Accurate Identification of in Vivo-Induced Haploid Seeds Based on Oil Content in Maize.” Scientific Reports 3: 2129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Häussler-Combe, Ulrich. 2014. Computational Methods for Reinforced Concrete Structures. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Ajmone Marsan, Marco, Giuseppe Bianchi, Marco Listanti, and Michela Meo, eds. 2005. Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks: Third International Workshop, QoS-IP 2005, Catania, Italy, February 2-4, 2004, Catania, Italy, February 2-4, 2004. Proceedings. Vol. 3375. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anzalone, Salvatore Maria, and Mohamed Chetouani. 2013. “Tracking Posture and Head Movements of Impaired People During Interactions with Robots.” In New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013: ICIAP 2013 International Workshops, Naples, Italy, September 9-13, 2013. Proceedings, edited by Alfredo Petrosino, Lucia Maddalena, and Pietro Pala, 41–49. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “World’s First Malaria Vaccine Gets Green Light.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-gets-green-light/.

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. 1976. National Aeronautical Facilities Program: Issues Related to Its Cost and Need. LCD-75-329. 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

Clark, Sarah. 2014. “Psychological Resilience, Daily Stressors, and Implications for Physical Activity Levels in Mothers with Young Children.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gustines, George Gene. 2017. “Funny, but Not Funny Enough for The New Yorker.” New York Times, September 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Collins 2012; Tokuriki and Tawfik 2009).

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

Two authors: (Tokuriki and Tawfik 2009)
Three authors: (Liotta, Ferrari, and Petricoin 2003)
4 or more authors: (Melchinger et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Abbreviation	Can. J. Philos.
ISSN (print)	0045-5091
ISSN (online)	1911-0820
Scope	Philosophy