How to format your references using the Educational Philosophy and Theory citation style

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

Nicholson, E. (2015). Accounting for career breaks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6236), 830.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cole, S. T., & Alzari, P. M. (2005). Microbiology. TB--a new target, a new drug. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5707), 214–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mochizuki, K., Matsumoto, M., & Ohmine, I. (2013). Defect pair separation as the controlling step in homogeneous ice melting. Nature, 498(7454), 350–354.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, B., Su, Y., Das, S., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Liu, J., & Ren, D. (2009). Peptide neurotransmitters activate a cation channel complex of NALCN and UNC-80. Nature, 457(7230), 741–744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sue, D. W. (2003). Overcoming Our Racism. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Azimova, S. S. (Ed.). (2013). Natural Compounds: Cycloartane Triterpenoids and Glycosides. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hart, W. E., Laird, C., Watson, J.-P., & Woodruff, D. L. (2012). Miscellaneous Model Components and Utility Functions. In C. Laird, J.-P. Watson, & D. L. Woodruff (Eds.), Pyomo – Optimization Modeling in Python (pp. 57–65). 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 Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 28). Google Embarks On Ambitious Project To Change The Way We Diagnose Cancer. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/google-embarks-ambitious-project-change-way-we-diagnose-diseases-cancer-0/

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). Results Act: Observations on NASA’s May 1997 Draft Strategic Plan (NSIAD-97-205R). 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

Brister, M. H. (2008). Attitudes of agriscience teachers, counselors, administrators, and students toward selected agriscience programs in Mississippi [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Hodgman, J. (2016, September 30). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, MM24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicholson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cole & Alzari, 2005; Nicholson, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cole & Alzari, 2005)
Three authors: (Mochizuki et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Lu et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Educational Philosophy and Theory
Abbreviation	Educ. Philos. Theory
ISSN (print)	0013-1857
ISSN (online)	1469-5812
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Education