How to format your references using the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 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

Smaglik, Paul. 2004. “The Philanthropic Principle”. Nature 431, no. 7009: 719.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ghosez, Philippe, and Jean-Marc Triscone. 2014. “Materials Physics: Reactive Walls”. Nature 515, no. 7527: 348–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Losos, Jonathan B., Thomas W. Schoener, and David A. Spiller. 2004. “Predator-Induced Behaviour Shifts and Natural Selection in Field-Experimental Lizard Populations”. Nature 432, no. 7016: 505–8.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mühlebach, Michael D., Mathieu Mateo, Patrick L. Sinn, Steffen Prüfer, Katharina M. Uhlig, Vincent H. J. Leonard, Chanakha K. Navaratnarajah, et al. 2011. “Adherens Junction Protein Nectin-4 Is the Epithelial Receptor for Measles Virus”. Nature 480, no. 7378: 530–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henderson, Timothy J. 2011. Beyond Borders. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gabbay, Dov M., and Franz Guenthner, eds. 2011. Handbook of Philosophical Logic: Volume 16. Vol. 16. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lvova, L., P. Paolesse, C. Di Natale, E. Martinelli, E. Mazzone, A. Orsini, and A. D′Amico. 2007. “CHEMICAL IMAGES OF LIQUIDS”. In Imaging for Detection and Identification, edited by Jim Byrnes, 63–95. 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 European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2017. “New Crab Species Honors Harry Potter (And The Crustacean Of Secrets)”. IFLScience. IFLScience. Last modified January 24, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-crab-species-honors-harry-potter-and-the-crustacean-of-secrets/.

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. “Satellite Control Capabilities: National Policy Could Help Consolidation and Cost Savings”. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. NSIAD-96-77.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Little, Kayla. 2013. “Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River”. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Kelly, Robert Kelly; Robert, whose most recent book of poems is ’ ’Not This Island Music, ’ ’ Teaches Literature, and writing at Bard College. 1987. “I AM NOT A HALFBACK”. New York Times, September 27, 1987.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
ISSN (print)	1689-8311
Scope