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

Reynolds, Stuart E. 2013. Ecology. Immunity and invasive success. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340: 816–817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forneris, Federico, and Andrea Mattevi. 2008. Enzymes without borders: mobilizing substrates, delivering products. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 213–216.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mariani, Francesca V., Christina P. Ahn, and Gail R. Martin. 2008. Genetic evidence that FGFs have an instructive role in limb proximal-distal patterning. Nature 453: 401–405.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Miles, Luke A., Gabriela A. N. Crespi, Larissa Doughty, and Michael W. Parker. 2013. Bapineuzumab captures the N-terminus of the Alzheimer’s disease amyloid-beta peptide in a helical conformation. Scientific reports 3: 1302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark, Greg. 2014. The Making of a World City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chen, Xiqun (michael). 2015. Stochastic Evolutions of Dynamic Traffic Flow: Modeling and Applications. Edited by Li Li and Qixin Shi. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lima, Fabio H. B., and Daniel A. Cantane. 2013. Recent Advances on Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Electro-Reduction and Ethanol Electro-Oxidation. In Nanoenergy: Nanotechnology Applied for Energy Production, ed. Flavio Leandro de Souza and Edson Roberto Leite, 125–151. 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 Continental Philosophy Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Why are Pandas so Chilled? The Clue is in the Bamboo. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 10.

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. 2009. Information Technology: Challenges Remain for VA’s Sharing of Electronic Health Records with DOD. GAO-09-427T. 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

Chotkevys, Debra L. 2009. A grounded theory study to explore how nurses overcome barriers to spiritual care. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly, Sean. 2003. METRO FARE. New York Times, March 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reynolds 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Forneris and Mattevi 2008; Reynolds 2013).

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

Two authors: (Forneris and Mattevi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Miles 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