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

Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo. 2002. “Grammar: The Barest Essentials.” Nature 416 (6877): 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernest, S. K., and J. H. Brown. 2001. “Delayed Compensation for Missing Keystone Species by Colonization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5514): 101–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Liuh-Yow, Sophie Redon, and Joachim Lingner. 2012. “The Human CST Complex Is a Terminator of Telomerase Activity.” Nature 488 (7412): 540–544.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Liu, Ansheng, Richard Jones, Ling Liao, Dean Samara-Rubio, Doron Rubin, Oded Cohen, Remus Nicolaescu, and Mario Paniccia. 2004. “A High-Speed Silicon Optical Modulator Based on a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Capacitor.” Nature 427 (6975): 615–618.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vanclef, Jason. 2013. The Wealth Code 2.0. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ewing, Reid. 2013. Measuring Urban Design: Metrics for Livable Places. Edited by Otto Clemente, Kathryn M. Neckerman, Marnie Purciel-Hill, James W. Quinn, and Andrew Rundle. Metropolitan Planning + Design. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics.

A chapter in an edited book

Aydın, Ali Orhan, and Mehmet Ali Orgun. 2010. “The Reactive-Causal Cognitive Agent Architecture.” In Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, edited by Yingxu Wang, Du Zhang, and Witold Kinsner, 71–103. Studies in Computational Intelligence. 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2015. “Watch SpaceX Launch Their Reusable Rocket LIVE.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-spacex-falcon-9-launch-and-landing-attempt/.

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. 2000. Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s Role in Major Airport Noise Programs. RCED-00-98. 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

Perez, Ryanzo W. 2017. “Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? The Impact of Prior Military Service on Hiring Managers’ Perceptions of Warmth, Competence, and Hirability.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Conforto Set For Surgery; Mets Drop 2.” New York Times, September 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piattelli-Palmarini 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Piattelli-Palmarini 2002; Ernest and Brown 2001).

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

Two authors: (Ernest and Brown 2001)
Three authors: (Chen, Redon, and Lingner 2012)
4 or more authors: (Liu et al. 2004)

About the journal

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