How to format your references using the Continental Philosophy Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Continental Philosophy Review. 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

Sohn, Emily. 2015. Screening: Diagnostic dilemma. Nature 528: S120-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belloc, Eulàlia, and Raúl Méndez. 2008. A deadenylation negative feedback mechanism governs meiotic metaphase arrest. Nature 452: 1017–1021.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furman, Jeffrey L., Fiona Murray, and Scott Stern. 2010. More for the research dollar. Nature 468: 757–758.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

McNerny, Daniel Q., B. Viswanath, Davor Copic, Fabrice R. Laye, Christophor Prohoda, Anna C. Brieland-Shoultz, Erik S. Polsen, Nicholas T. Dee, Vijayen S. Veerasamy, and A. John Hart. 2014. Direct fabrication of graphene on SiO2 enabled by thin film stress engineering. Scientific reports 4: 5049.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Zhen-Guo. 2016. Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Hossain, Ekram, and Kin Leung, ed. 2008. Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Quan, Vinh, and Scott Rogers. 2006. A Supply Network of Oligopoly for the Advanced Intelligent Network. In Telecommunications Planning: Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management, ed. S. Raghavan and G. Anandalingam, 65–87. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Continental Philosophy Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Hungry Spiderlings Cannibalize Their Mother. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 30.

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. 1997. Core Competencies for Financial System Analysts in the Federal Government (Exposure Draft). CC–4. 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

Collins, Lauren. 2009. A community risk assessment of the 90062 zip code. 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

Oestreich, James R. 2016. Among the Dictators and Commandants Are Sopranos and Baritones. New York Times, October 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sohn 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Belloc and Méndez 2008; Sohn 2015).

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

Two authors: (Belloc and Méndez 2008)
Three or more authors: (McNerny et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Continental Philosophy Review
Abbreviation	Cont. Philos. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1387-2842
ISSN (online)	1573-1103
Scope	Philosophy Sociology and Political Science