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

Graddol, David. 2004. The future of language. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303: 1329–1331.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stefankiewicz, Artur R., and Jeremy K. M. Sanders. 2010. Chemistry. Harmony of the self-assembled spheres. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 1115–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hartgerink, J. D., E. Beniash, and S. I. Stupp. 2001. Self-assembly and mineralization of peptide-amphiphile nanofibers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 1684–1688.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lin, Shih-Kang, Chao-Kuei Yeh, Wei Xie, Yu-Chen Liu, and Masahiro Yoshimura. 2013. Ab initio-aided CALPHAD thermodynamic modeling of the Sn-Pb binary system under current stressing. Scientific reports 3: 2731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good, Phillip I. 2006. A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nawrat. M, Aleksander M., ed. 2014. Innovative Control Systems for Tracked Vehicle Platforms. Vol. 2. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bouckaert, Luk. 2005. Spirituality and Economic Democracy. In Spirituality and Ethics in Management, ed. László Zsolnai, 51–58. Issues in Business Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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. Divers Find The Flying Spaghetti Monster Under The Ocean. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 16.

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. 1996. Blue Cross FEHBP Pharmacy Benefits. HEHS-96-182R. 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

Glazer, Kip. 2015. Imagining a constructionist game-based pedagogical model: Using tabletop role-playing game creation to enhance literature education in high school English classes. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Barnes, Brooks, and John Koblin. 2017. Disney Runs Toward Streaming. New York Times, October 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graddol 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Graddol 2004; Stefankiewicz and Sanders 2010).

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

Two authors: (Stefankiewicz and Sanders 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2013)

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