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

Venkitaraman, Ashok R. 2014. “Cancer Suppression by the Chromosome Custodians, BRCA1 and BRCA2.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6178): 1470–1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun, Yugang, and Younan Xia. 2002. “Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5601): 2176–2179.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesić, Dragana, Yun Hsu, and C. Erec Stebbins. 2004. “Assembly and Function of a Bacterial Genotoxin.” Nature 429 (6990): 429–433.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kenward, Ben, Alex A. S. Weir, Christian Rutz, and Alex Kacelnik. 2005. “Behavioural Ecology: Tool Manufacture by Naive Juvenile Crows.” Nature 433 (7022): 121.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edwards, Davis W. 2014. Risk Management in Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Larvor, Brendan, ed. 2016. Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014. Trends in the History of Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Roth-Bejerano, Nurit, Alfonso Navarro-Ródenas, and Almudena Gutiérrez. 2014. “Types of Mycorrhizal Association.” In Desert Truffles: Phylogeny, Physiology, Distribution and Domestication, edited by Varda Kagan-Zur, Nurit Roth-Bejerano, Yaron Sitrit, and Asunción Morte, 69–80. Soil Biology. 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

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Earth Is Now Warmer Than It’s Been In 120,000 Years.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-is-now-warmer-than-its-been-in-120000-years/.

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. 1994. Aviation Security: Development of New Security Technology Has Not Met Expectations. RCED-94-142. 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

Manandhar, Rachana. 2017. “Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes.” 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

Tankersley, Jim. 2017. “Federal Debt Is Not Reduced By Gains in Market.” New York Times, October 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Venkitaraman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Venkitaraman 2014; Sun and Xia 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sun and Xia 2002)
Three authors: (Nesić, Hsu, and Stebbins 2004)
4 or more authors: (Kenward et al. 2005)

About the journal

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