How to format your references using the Erkenntnis citation style

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

Gavrilets, S. (2000). Rapid evolution of reproductive barriers driven by sexual conflict. Nature, 403(6772), 886–889.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dezhina, I., & Graham, L. R. (2005). Research funding. Science foundations: a novelty in Russian science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5755), 1772–1773.

A journal article with 3 authors

Agathon, A., Thisse, C., & Thisse, B. (2003). The molecular nature of the zebrafish tail organizer. Nature, 424(6947), 448–452.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

James, A. B., Monreal, J. A., Nimmo, G. A., Kelly, C. L., Herzyk, P., Jenkins, G. I., & Nimmo, H. G. (2008). The circadian clock in Arabidopsis roots is a simplified slave version of the clock in shoots. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5909), 1832–1835.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez, E. M., & Kamal-Eldin, A. (2013). Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Maes, F. (Ed.). (2005). Marine Resource Damage Assessment: Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ribeiro-Rodrigues, R. (2012). Host Response to M. leprae. In E. Nunzi & C. Massone (Eds.), Leprosy: A Practical Guide (pp. 27–38). Milano: 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 Erkenntnis.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, May 15). Will Europe’s Flagship ExoMars Mission Ever Get Off The Ground? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/will-europes-flagship-exomars-mission-ever-get-ground/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1988). Telecommunications: Ohio Cable Television Rate Increases, 1986 to Present (No. RCED-88-236FS). 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

Washington, S. (2010). Counseling students ability to diagnose Asperger’s Syndrome (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Baker, L. (2011, February 23). In Vancouver, a New Effort to Sell Olympic Condos. New York Times, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavrilets 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dezhina and Graham 2005; Gavrilets 2000).

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

Two authors: (Dezhina and Graham 2005)
Three or more authors: (James et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Erkenntnis
Abbreviation	Erkenntnis
ISSN (print)	0165-0106
ISSN (online)	1572-8420
Scope	Philosophy Logic